Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller

From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:58:58 -0700
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Gary Palmer <gpalmer_at_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_at_gmail.com
Received on Thu Sep 15 2011 - 15:58:59 UTC

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