The current disklabel editing code in sysinst is slightly user-unfriendly,
not least because the menu box overlays part of the text you need to see!

It looks something like:

 We now have your BSD-disklabel partitions as (Start, End and Size in MB):
 
    Start     End       Size      FStype Bsize Fsize Preserve Mount point
    --------- --------- --------- ------ ----- ----- -------- -----------
 a: 2055      2587      533       4.2BSD 8192  1024  No
 b: 2588      3612      1024      swap   
 c: 2055      6101      4047      unused 
 d: 0         19546     19547     unused 
 e: 3613      6101      2489      4.2BSD 8192  1024  No
 f: 0         2054      2055      MSDOS  
 g: 17924     19546     1622      4.2BSD 8192  1024  No
 h: 15876     17923     2048      4.2BSD 8192  1024  No
 i: 6102      12110  lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk
 j: 12111     14110  x>a: Change a                        x
 k: 14111     15875  x b: Change b                        x
 l: 0         0      x c: NetBSD partition - can't change x
 m: 0         0      x d: Whole disk - can't change       x
 n: 0         0      x e: Change e                        x
 o: 0         0      x f: Change f                        x
 p: 0         0      x g: Change g                        x
                     x h: Change h                        x
                     x <: page up, >: page down           x
                     mqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqj

I think it should be possible to make the partition display itself be the
menu - drawn without a title or box.

The user could then select the partition to edit by moving the highlighted
entry up and down.

Once selected the information for that partition could be displayed
vertically as another menu, allowing the user to highlight the field
to change.

I also want to do the same for the MBR partitions, including the bootmenu
stuff on the same screen (for i386/amd64).

Does anyone see any problems before I start wearing out my coding stick?

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk