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Date:      Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:58:58 -0700
From:      Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>
To:        Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
Cc:        lev@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller
Message-ID:  <CAN6yY1vrto%2BykVcSXshnKyW_qZt5z%2Bmi4KOmCWsAkespAs_v_Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 03:46:21PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> Second, I frequently want custom newfs options, most notably -b, -f,
>> and -i. There was no way to do this with sysinstall
>
> The source appears to disagree with you
>
> From usr.sbin/sysinstall/label.c
>
> /* If the user wants a special newfs command for this, set it */
> static void
> getNewfsCmd(PartInfo *p)
>
> I'm pretty sure I've used that option in multiple releases of FBSD.
>
> If that is missing in the new installer then that is something that needs
> fixed.

I stand corrected and am baffled by how I missed it.

I still want to see the arguments that are to be passed to newfs
before I pull the trigger.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired
E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com



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