NetBSD Problem Report #9900

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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 10:48:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: mcmahill@mit.edu
Reply-To: mcmahill@mit.edu
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Subject: sysinst only does 1 disk
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>Number:         9900
>Category:       install
>Synopsis:       sysinst only uses 1 drive
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    install-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Apr 16 14:49:00 +0000 2000
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Tue Jun 06 00:52:19 +0000 2000
>Originator:     Dan McMahill
>Release:        1.4.2
>Organization:

>Environment:

System: NetBSD wayne.mit.edu 1.4.1 NetBSD 1.4.1 (WAYNE) #0: Sat Jan 8 15:00:10 EST 2000 mcmahill@wayne.mit.edu:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/WAYNE i386


>Description:

sysinst only handles 1 disk.  What I want to be able to do is, for exmple:

put / and some swap on sd0
put /usr and some more swap on sd1

but sysinst only allows you to specify 1 drive for an install.  

it would be good to allow for setting up disklabels on multiple disks and
have sysinst then newfs the appropriate ones.


>How-To-Repeat:
install with sysinst on a machine with >1 drive, note you have to pick
1 or the other


>Fix:
don't know.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: install/9900: sysinst only does 1 disk
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 13:51:38 -0400 (EDT)

 [ On Sunday, April 16, 2000 at 10:48:11 (-0400), mcmahill@mit.edu wrote: ]
 > Subject: install/9900: sysinst only does 1 disk
 >
 > sysinst only handles 1 disk.  What I want to be able to do is, for exmple:
 > 
 > put / and some swap on sd0
 > put /usr and some more swap on sd1
 > 
 > but sysinst only allows you to specify 1 drive for an install.  

 It would be *really* nice if NetBSD could copy almost verbatim the
 user-interface used by FreeBSD for this.  It works *really* well and is
 extremely easy to use.

 -- 
 							Greg A. Woods

 +1 416 218-0098      VE3TCP      <gwoods@acm.org>      <robohack!woods>
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>Unformatted:

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