Subject: Re: disklabel (was Re: Netboot SS4 and install NetBSD -- Success!)
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/15/2000 21:59:23
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, der Mouse wrote:
> > if they have a new release of NetBSD they really need to work on
> > disklabel.
>
> For use on a SPARC, there's always sunlabel. :-)
>
> I'm currently working on a program designed to be pointed to by $EDITOR
> specifically for use with disklabel; it provides a sunlabelish user
> interface.
>
> I expect to have something alpha-test-ready within a week.
Would there be any sense to enhancing the 'disklabel -i'
interface? With the recent addition of the ability to
specify 'to the end of the disk' as a partition size I've
come to quite like it :)
David/absolute