Re: sysinst for sparc

[David Brownlee <abs%anim.dreamworks.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, matthew green wrote:

> while a working sysinst for the sparc is cool and all, i'm really really
> not happy to use it by default until some major problems are solved.  the

        Of this I was aware :) - which is why I left the existing setup.

> biggest one that i know of that has not been touched is the disk partitioning
> tool.  i refuse to force that evil icky horrible "user interface" onto the
> unsuspecting SPARC users.  and then there is the fact that it doesn't let you
> change more than the very basic's.  why does it not use disklabel for much
> of this?  the only partitioner i have ever used that i found worse was the
> DUh 4.x installer's.  gosh, after reading the code it i see also has:
> 
> * FIXME -- disklabel-editing code assumes that partition 'a' is always root.
> 
> which is not acceptable.  i also notice there is some support for MSDOS
> filesystems but it won't even remotely work.  what about LFS?
> 
> in short:  good work, but not for default until at *least* the partitioner
> is fixed (rewritten, as far as i can tell).
> 
        Well the manual option is reasonably nice (if simplistic :)
        So would you be happy enough with a version of sysinst that
        had change partition interface at least as good as 'disklabel -i'
        (not that that is perfect by any means).
> 
> (it's a pity you didn't use .PATH:, etc., to find the duplicated files,
> but whatever).

        Apologies for that - I was concentrating on factoring out all the
        port specific much into m4 files :)

                David/absolute

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