9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller

Gary Palmer gpalmer at freebsd.org
Thu Sep 15 12:12:36 UTC 2011


On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 03:46:21PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> Second, I frequently want custom newfs options, most notably -b, -f,
> and -i. There was no way to do this with sysinstall

The source appears to disagree with you

>From usr.sbin/sysinstall/label.c

/* If the user wants a special newfs command for this, set it */
static void
getNewfsCmd(PartInfo *p)

I'm pretty sure I've used that option in multiple releases of FBSD.

If that is missing in the new installer then that is something that needs
fixed.

Gary


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