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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news2.cais.com!cais.cais.com!mcgraw From: mcgraw@cais.cais.com (Michael Curry) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD support [was Re: God Damn partition crap!] Date: 8 Apr 1996 02:36:04 GMT Organization: Capital Area Internet Service info@cais.com 703-448-4470 Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4k9u2k$pom@news2.cais.com> References: <4k1afu$42a@news2.cais.com> <4k4te9$2og@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cais.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: : mcgraw@cais.cais.com (Michael Curry) wrote: : ] : ] : The main problem is that it isn't a single command called : ] : "add_disk". To get to that level of automation requires : ] : resolving some fundamental issues tightly bound to things : ] : like BIOS geometry and DOS partition table C/H/S fields. : ] : ] I do not recall the term "automation" being used. : I claim that anything less is a half-assed stop-gap soloution : and, frankly, isn't worth my time to work on. I agree that it is not worth your time to work on. : If you feel it's worth your time, then fine. I have already : offered many megabytes of process documentation and related : materials to enable you to do so. It *may* be worth my time, but then, I do not believe that many megabytes of process documentation would be necessary to make some fairly trivial additions to the existing documentation, which might help inexperienced people during installation and setup.