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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to add disks
Date: 14 Mar 1996 22:39:02 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu writes:

> Gee, if only there was a tool called ``newdisk'' or perhaps 
> ``son_of_sysinstall''.

After answering the question three dozen times, well, i'm now
seriously thinking about writing this tool myself.  At least, i'm
interested... ;-)  (I've already hacked the support for ``disklabel
auto'' just for this reason, even though Bruce Evans opposed to it
since it's technically not a very clean solution.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)