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To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, mrl@teleport.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: When is 2.2 Estimated to be released? 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Mar 1996 09:32:12 PST."
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Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 15:43:53 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> I think what we need for 2.1.5 is a stand-alone version of the 
> fdisk/partition utility from /stand/sysinstall.  I never did master the 
> concept of poking magic numbers into /etc/format.dat and our heinous 

I've been planning this for some time, gated off of both fdisk and
label editors becoming more functional than they are.  If you have 5
or more drives attached to your system, and many do, the current tools
simply fall over.  The fix for this problem is known and planned,
after which I'll look at breaking out pieces of sysinstall and making
them more functional.

					Jordan