Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!spool.mu.edu!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news2.cais.com!cais.cais.com!mcgraw From: mcgraw@cais.cais.com (Michael Curry) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD support [was Re: God Damn partition crap!] Date: 4 Apr 1996 20:12:46 GMT Organization: Capital Area Internet Service info@cais.com 703-448-4470 Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4k1afu$42a@news2.cais.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cais.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: : The operation is documented in detail in the handbook, which is : online at www.freebsd.org. No comment. : The main problem is that it isn't a single command called : "add_disk". To get to that level of automation requires : resolving some fundamental issues tightly bound to things : like BIOS geometry and DOS partition table C/H/S fields. I do not recall the term "automation" being used.