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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ZIP drive in FreeBSD Date: 1 Sep 1995 00:11:59 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 27 Message-ID: <425j4f$jmp@reason.cdrom.com> References: <41pc3c$15j@hathor.mch.sni.de> <41q5lm$p2q@reason.cdrom.com> <41qkia$1l5@hathor.mch.sni.de> <422869$cg3@globe.indirect.com> <422ond$q19@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <GILHAM.95Aug30194058@lily.csl.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) X-URL: news:GILHAM.95Aug30194058@lily.csl.sri.com gilham@lily.csl.sri.com (Fred Gilham) wrote: >Bill Paul gave a very helpful description of how to use the `wizard >mode' in the sysinstall utility to add disks to the system. >Unfortunately, in FreeBSD-stable (which is version 2.1) wizard mode is >entered using the `|' character rather than the `w' character. Since >it's `wizard mode' I guess you are expected to discover this as I did, >by looking at the code. Exactly! You wouldn't be a wizard otherwise, now would you? :-) Actually, it's a less pedestrian answer than that.. I wanted to add `Write' as an immediately available option there and since `W' was already taken, I was faced with using something very strange for Write or changing an already undocumented (until Bill opened his yap, that is, THANKS BILL! :-) function. I think I made a reasonable choice. Now, all that said, this will change again for the next snapshot. Wizard mode WILL be documented and it will have a more reasonable keystroke bound to it. >Sysinstall's wizard mode looks like the right thing to use for adding >new disks. But are only wizards supposed to add new disks? No, it's more the fact that adding new disks should be easier from the default install.. I'm shakin' it here, Boss! :-) -- Jordan