Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller

From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:02:33 -0700
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

That functionality doesn't exist today, unless you want to drop into
the shell and set everything up manually..
-Garrett
Received on Thu Sep 15 2011 - 16:02:34 UTC

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