Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 20:46:37 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: hosokawa@ntc.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) Cc: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs YOU. :-) Message-ID: <29665.885962797@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:44:37 %2B0900." <199801280344.MAA07057@afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp>
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> >> The Novice installation shouldn't even > >> bring up that screen by default, its choices being more along the > >> lines of: > >> > >> Would you like to: > >> 1) Use the entire disk for FreeBSD. > >> 2) Use only unallocated space for FreeBSD. > >> 3) Edit the partition table manually. > > I want to add > > 4) Use the second disk for FreeBSD What about the 3rd or 4th disk? :-) I think the DOS fdisk program does this about as well as can be expected: It just give you an additional item which you can use for changing the currently selected disk. Just selecting 4) in your example would still require more dialog of the user in the cases where there's no unallocated space on the 2nd drive or where it's all unallocated (I consider Win95's boorish default behavior of just eating a whole drive to be very evil and something we should not emulate :-). Might as well just generalize it. > I also want to resurrect "[size XX MB]" in the distribution selection > menu of 2.1.x sysinstall because it can be automatically calculated. > This will be very easy. This should really be put into the .inf file for each distribution, the various .inf files also merged into a single global "distribution map" file which sysinstall can slurp in after asking about media but before requesting information on desired distributions. Having read in a map file, you now know how many pieces each distribution has, its total size, the distribution checksums, etc. and can use this in presenting more intelligent dialogs. Always something on my TODO list, just no time. :) > BTW, I'll start update multilingual extention because 2.2.6 will be > out soon, but I want to know which branch (3.0-CURRENT and 2.2-RELENG) > is appropreate for this work. I cvsupped the latest source today and > diffed the both. They are very diffent. The two versions of sysinstall? They should not be *that* different, except for various include file differences which are necessary in -current but not in 2.2 and, of course, the device support for things which are only in 3.0. If you can find something different between the two branches where 3.0 is clearly lacking a feature that 2.2 has, please let me know - I just made two small commits to the -current branch based on stuff I found which matched that definition, but I can't see any more than that. > If they will be merged soon, I'll choose 3.0-CURRENT as the working > base, but if they won't merged at least until the release of 2.2.6, I > have to start with 2.2-RELENG because avarage users needs 2.2.6. Please do it in -current and retrofit your applicable changes into 2.2 - then you will be in sync with everyone else who's working on sysinstall. :-) Jordan
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