From owner-freebsd-libh Tue Mar 5 4:27:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from ra.sigterm.com (sangui.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.16.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33AC337B437 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 04:25:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from osiris.sigterm.com ([203.47.187.211]) by ra.sigterm.com with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1) id 16iE0K-000AeD-00 for freebsd-libh@freebsd.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 23:25:16 +1100 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 23:25:44 +1100 From: Stuart Tanner To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Subject: Contributing to the installer Message-ID: <20020305232544.G364@osiris.sigterm.com> Reply-To: stuart@sigterm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Balsa 1.3.0 Lines: 11 Sender: owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I would like to contribute to the new installer is there someone who can tell me how? -- Stuart Tanner The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. -- E. 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Dijkstra To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-libh Tue Mar 5 19: 9:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from tomts15-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts15.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22DE837B41B for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 19:09:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from khan.anarcat.dyndns.org ([65.94.191.9]) by tomts15-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with ESMTP id <20020306030916.VIKG11484.tomts15-srv.bellnexxia.net@khan.anarcat.dyndns.org>; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 22:09:16 -0500 Received: from lenny.anarcat.dyndns.org (lenny.anarcat.dyndns.org [192.168.0.4]) by khan.anarcat.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4AFB19B0; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 22:09:07 -0500 (EST) Received: (from anarcat@localhost) by lenny.anarcat.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g25J9D695084; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 14:09:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from anarcat) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 14:09:13 -0500 From: The Anarcat To: Stuart Tanner Cc: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org, The Anarcat Subject: Re: Contributing to the installer Message-ID: <20020305190912.GA199@lenny.anarcat.dyndns.org> Mail-Followup-To: The Anarcat , Stuart Tanner , freebsd-libh@freebsd.org References: <20020305232544.G364@osiris.sigterm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020305232544.G364@osiris.sigterm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue Mar 05, 2002 at 11:25:44PM +1100, Stuart Tanner wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I would like to contribute to the new installer is there someone who=20 > can tell me how? Well, there is still quite a lot of work to do on libh. One of the problems there is is that the system is under-documented. Just reading through the code and getting a general feeling of how it works would already be a good start. If you could then document what you learn, it would be of good help. =46rom there you can start working on the code itself, implementing missing parts of the installer.=20 Almost everything is still undone, though. For the "installer" (since libh is more than just an installer), we still have to: - fix the package library (it is still buggy and incomplete): lib/*, - finish the boot floppies creator: release/floppies, - complete the "setup" program (the installer itself): release/setup; - disk editor (it can create partitions, but not newfs and mount them): release/diskedit, - package manager (not started, command line: release/pkgtools) - system configuration program (not started) Once all this is done we'll have a full replacement for sysinstall. See also: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/libh.html#status Good luck! 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Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1C4FD.564C8570 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I can't seem to subscribe to your list, keep getting this. >> auth 36e9cfa7 subscribe libh Dewhirst.M@UCLES.org.uk >> Sorry, an error has occurred while processing your request >> The caretaker of Majordomo ( Majordomo-Owner@FreeBSD.ORG ) >> has been notified of the problem. Can somebody please help with this, would very much appreciate any pointers. reply to my address, not to the list, as I'm not subscribed :) Mike This message was written in plain text mode. 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I can't seem to subscribe to your list, keep getting this.

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Can somebody please help with this, would very much appreciate any pointers.

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