bin/40656: patch: sysinstall: scripted deletion of slices

[Thomas Zenker]

The following reply was made to PR bin/40656; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Zenker <thz at Lennartz-electronic.de>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/40656: patch: sysinstall: scripted deletion of slices
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 10:26:02 +0200

 Perhaps helps to get an ear explaining this a bit further: In
 automated installations (embedded devices in instruments) via
 sysinstall scripts, it is impossible to make a script which does a
 complete installation and works on hard disks which have fdisk
 partitions already. The most simple solution is to give sysinstall
 scripts the ability to delete all fdisk partitions, so we can do a
 new install. In embedded devices clobbering the fdisk partition 
 manually is not an option.
 
 Thomas