Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller

From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:55:03 -0400
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:02:33AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> 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..

Is there a way of tracking suggested improvements to the new installer
other than the mailing list archives?

Gary
Received on Thu Sep 15 2011 - 16:55:04 UTC

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