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From: jfh@cis.ufl.edu (James F. Hranicky)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: help on labeling non-labeled new scsi disk
Date: 31 Oct 1995 13:50:42 GMT
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In article <470do8$1jm@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

> >>Btw., the installer doesn't use disklabel(8) itself; it uses libdisk
> >>which can be found in the src/release/libdisk directory.
> >
> >That is a library, but not a utility tool.
> 
> Of course, but somebody has been asking why things work in the
> installer but don't work with the separate tools.

Two questions:

1) Are there any plans to get the installer utilities out into the
release distribution? The latest floppies allow for disklabeling
without installing, which is really cool -- now if you could only
partition slices one at a time from the "Label" menu...

2) Is there a program like scsiinfo on SunOS 4.1.x that will create
a disklabel for a scsi drive?

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