Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 14:09:13 -0500 From: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org> To: Stuart Tanner <stuart@sigterm.com> Cc: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org, The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org> Subject: Re: Contributing to the installer Message-ID: <20020305190912.GA199@lenny.anarcat.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20020305232544.G364@osiris.sigterm.com> References: <20020305232544.G364@osiris.sigterm.com>
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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!
A.
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