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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.dfn.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!nntp.gmd.de!stern.fokus.gmd.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: help on labeling non-labeled new scsi disk Date: 2 Nov 1995 01:46:33 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4794d9$4cr@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <461btt$34q@overload.lbl.gov> <46me71$lvv@overload.lbl.gov> <470do8$1jm@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4759ji$c09@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit James F. Hranicky <jfh@cis.ufl.edu> wrote: >1) Are there any plans to get the installer utilities out into the >release distribution? The latest floppies allow for disklabeling >without installing, which is really cool -- now if you could only >partition slices one at a time from the "Label" menu... I think Jordan is planning to have /stand/sysinstall also available as a utility usable on an installed system. >2) Is there a program like scsiinfo on SunOS 4.1.x that will create >a disklabel for a scsi drive? Hmm, vi(1)? :-) All you need is the total number of sectors, for the su# capability... At least on a disk that is owned by FreeBSD. Seriously, not really. /stand/sysinstall. You can build a program called /usr/src/release/libdisk/tst01, this is basically the ``wizard'' mode of sysinstall. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)