Hi,

Bob has handed off his patch code to me and I have incorporated it into the
installer.  I have emailed a request to get the updated installer placed on
ftp.macbsd.com for download access.  Once it us uploaded we will let everyone
know and you can download and test it.  Be aware that I did not have a spare
larger than 1GB drive to test it on, but the code looks straight-forward
enough that I do not anticipate any problems.  I did test it on my half-gigabyte
drive to make doubly sure that I didn't muck up anything that was already
working.  No problems encountered there.

Steve Brown,
sbrown@best.com

>>Bob Nestor has patched MkFS to take care of the problem, and was planning
>>to work on the installer too (it's a simple patch).
>
>Well, yes the patch is simple but getting it in isn't (for me).  My old
>version of Think C keeps crashing and converting the Installer to build
>under CodeWarrior requires a lot of changes to the sources.  So yes I've
>got the code, but no I haven't gotten them installed yet.  I sent a
>message off to someone who last worked on the Installer to see if he'd
>integrate the changes but I haven't heard back from him yet.
>
>Unless Alex used the newer "mkfs" to build his partitions he wouldn't
>have run into this problem with the Installer.  The old version of mkfs
>would have nailed his hard disk before the Installer got to it.
>
>-bob