Subject: Re: XFS/AdvFS type for Netbsd
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/21/2005 14:29:27
Am 21.01.2005 um 10:14 Uhr +0100 schrieb Martin Husemann:
>On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:57:00AM +0100, Hauke Fath wrote:
>> Strange priorities in sysinst -- I'd choose LFS support (and commandline
>> editing, and localised keyboard mappings, if there is any room left on
>> the media) over eye candy like localised installer text any day.
>
>You know how it works - send in patches ;-)
You know how it is - so many projects, and so little time. ;)
>Someone did with localized installer texts, but noone did for keyboard
>mappings (which in deed we urgently need).
Still, there is only so much room on two 1.4MB disks.
>IIUC lfs support is in the work, but that's something you need to test
>carefully
Include the *_lfs tools in the installer kernel, make sure it can
write lfs bootblocks - what else is there? The disklabel editor
already lets you set up lfs partitions, it is only when you want to
write the label that it tells you it cannot create a filesystem. =8/
>- and testing sysinst is not everyones idea of fun.
Understood.
hauke
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