From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 8 03:07:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA29673 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:07:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA29664 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:07:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.okbmei.msk.su (ns.okbmei.msk.su [194.190.170.40]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id DAA24284 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:07:41 -0800 Received: from kiae.UUCP by ns.okbmei.msk.su with UUCP id AA04439 (5.67c8/IDA-1.5); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 13:40:16 +0300 Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by sequent.kiae.su with SMTP id AA15828 (5.65.kiae-2 for ); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 13:10:52 +0300 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA25501 Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:01:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA25462 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:00:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.tribe.com ([205.184.207.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA25457 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:00:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.tribe.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA13621; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:59:52 -0800 From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199603080159.RAA13621@bubba.tribe.com> Subject: Re: When is 2.2 Estimated to be released? To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:59:51 -0800 (PST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, mrl@teleport.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Jake Hamby" at Mar 7, 96 09:32:12 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Charset: KOI8-R X-Char-Esc: 29 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > I'd like to see the code differential from 2.1.0 to 2.1.5 be the same > > as the code differential between 2.0.5 and 2.1.0. > > 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 > command-line fdisk utilities. I thought somebody had done a code drop of > this into a stand-alone program some time ago. What ever happened to > that? I wouldn't mind if /stand/sysinstall was hacked to allow > fdisk/partition/formatting WITHOUT having to pretend we are reinstalling > the operating system. If it is a standalone, I suggest "format" as the > name, since that meshes with what SunOS/Solaris uses. Comments??? I > think this is _very_ important for the next release, and not > very difficult to do. I'm in very strong agreement with this sentiment!! The fact that MS-DOS has a better fdisk program than FreeBSD is shameful. While we're at it, how about integrating the booteasy functionality? Personally, I miss Linux's LILO very much. Well, actually I still use it instead of booteasy. OK, it's easy to *ask* for things... :-) -Archie _______________________________________________________________________________ Archie L. Cobbs, archie@tribe.com * Tribe Computer Works http://www.tribe.com