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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh>
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Subject: cvs commit:  src/release/sysinstall cdrom.c dist.c floppy.c globals.c install.c media.c menus.c nfs.c options.c package.c sysinstall.h system.c user.c
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jkh         97/01/24 11:24:55

  Modified:    release/sysinstall  cdrom.c dist.c floppy.c globals.c
                        install.c media.c menus.c  nfs.c options.c
                        package.c sysinstall.h system.c user.c
  Log:
  OK, I've got two ideas to file in the "really seemed like a good idea
  at the time, but on further reflection..." bucket with these changes.
  
  1. Checking the media before frobbing the disks was a fine idea, and
     I wish it could have worked, but that leads to a rather difficult
     situation when you need to mount the media someplace and you're about
     to:
  
  	a) Chroot away from your present root.
  	b) Newfs the root to be.
  
     You're basically screwed since there's no place to stick the mount
     point where it will be found following the newfs/chroot (and eliminating
     the chroot in favor of just using the "root bias" feature would work
     great for the distributions but not the pkg_add calls done by the
     package installer).
  
  2. Automatic timeout handling.  I don't know why, but alarm() frequently
     returns no residual even when the alarm didn't go off, which defies
     the man page but hey, since when was that so unusual?  Take out timeouts
     but retain the code which temporarily replaces the SIGINT handler in
     favor of a more media-specific handler.  This way, at least, if it's hanging
     you can at least whap it.  I think the timeout code would have been losing
     over *really slow* links anyway, so it's probably best that it go.
  
  This should fix NFS, tape & CDROM installs again (serves me right for getting
  complacent and using just the FTP installs in my testing).
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.36      +2 -2      src/release/sysinstall/cdrom.c
  1.96      +32 -27    src/release/sysinstall/dist.c
  1.22      +2 -2      src/release/sysinstall/floppy.c
  1.17      +0 -2      src/release/sysinstall/globals.c
  1.163     +16 -56    src/release/sysinstall/install.c
  1.77      +25 -27    src/release/sysinstall/media.c
  1.110     +6 -2      src/release/sysinstall/menus.c
  1.17      +3 -3      src/release/sysinstall/nfs.c
  1.52      +1 -1      src/release/sysinstall/options.c
  1.53      +0 -1      src/release/sysinstall/package.c
  1.110     +0 -3      src/release/sysinstall/sysinstall.h
  1.75      +0 -26     src/release/sysinstall/system.c
  1.10      +0 -4      src/release/sysinstall/user.c