Subject: re: sysinst for sparc
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 05/03/1999 10:49:16
On Mon, 3 May 1999, matthew green wrote:

> actually, disklabel -i is limited in editing things other than the
> partition table values itself (ie, the other fields in the label),
> much like sysinst (and edlabel, i also believe.)  disklabel -e appears
> to truly be the only real way to access all this info.
> 
	I always thought that was... unhelpful, that and the fact you
	cannot display the partition information without the other fields
	(and vica versa) - which is painful on the sun framebuffer.

	I think I may end up taking a look at that :)
	
> well, as i said.. good work :-)  it will be nice to share more of these
> files with other ports.  i kind of hated copying so many files when i
> begun work on this (it has since reduced slightly, fortunately :-).

	I was going to wait until 1.4 had been reolved, then try to
	get sparc and i386 to use the same ramdisk dir (its all mostly
	done anyway), then onto pmax and others :)

		David/absolute

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