Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller

From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:12:34 -0400
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.

Gary
Received on Thu Sep 15 2011 - 10:12:36 UTC

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