In article <12207.1004017959@splode.eterna.com.au>
mrg@eterna.com.au wrote:

>     > what do we do about cross-installboot/disklabel?

>    installboot's tricky -- I'll see ... disklabel doesn't apply, since
>    its not used in the miniroot making process.

> i see a lot of calls to disklabel in src/distrib...

A bit off-topic..
disklabel(8) has -f option to specify disktab file
(by setdisktab(3)), but vnconfig(8) and newfs(8)
do not have such option.

All files under distrib/sparc do not use disktab,
but some other ports refer /etc/disktab via these programs.
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp