Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years

Mike Makonnen mtm at wubethiopia.com
Tue Jul 8 14:48:35 UTC 2008


Freddie Cash wrote:
> 
> The tricky part will be getting the disk slicing, slice partitioning,
> and filesystem formatting to work reliably, with all the power of
> FreeBSD's GEOM modules, and ZFS.
> 

Actually, this is probably the easiest part (at least for UFS). The 
libdisk(3) library abstracts most of it out of the installer.

Cheers.
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