I've made the error retry loops go back as far as the input menus.
Split all the pathname inputs into 2 pieces (base directory and set directory).
Reduced the size of some fixed strings.
Stopped the install aborting if ftp can't find a set (eg the X ones).
The French and Polish transations don't differenciate between Base_dir and
Set_dir - but that can be fixed later.
Convert ' ' to 0 to ensure a valid device name is genarated.
(This will be a problem in 'upgrade' when filesystems are mounted
using the targets extisting /etc/fstab.)
written into the correct place - even if the user decides not to update
the mbr code and has the old (pre layout change) code installed.
Tell the user that the mbr code needs updating if the new install uses
'all the disk' and teh old version had the bootselect code (otherwise you
get an empty menu).
Probably fixes PR install/25146
use union to align struct fs
don't check error return from fsck upgrade/downgrade runs
use RUN_DISPLAY | RUN_PROGRESS when running upgrade runs
don't use opendisk
much the same function).
Mainly some extra comments, also moved a 'static' so we use 512bytes of
stack and not static data. Killed call to access() as it is pointless
and doesn't do what you want (access is for suid programs to check whether
the real user could do the operation).
stuff: bz2 support, compress support, many non-required options.
now x_gzip supports "gzip -l" so sysinst should work for these platforms.
gzip will grow slightly - 400 or so bytes on x86 - but this is a small
price to pay for working -l support...
that has holes.
This needs the 'bios sectors per track' before it has been setup - so we
default it to the 'hardware' value. Since both numbers are 63, and this only
affects the size of the headers on extended partitions it should be safe.
leave 4 bytes for the Windows NT Drive Serial Number (DSN) at 440-443
(as mbr_sector.mbr_dsn).
Ensure that all the MBR & PBR code reserves space for mbr_sector.mbr_dsn.
Leave the bootsel magic number at 444-445 as mbr_sector.mbr_bootsel_magic
(instead of mbr_sector.mbr_bootsel.mbrbs_magic), but use 0xb5e1 (MBR_BS_MAGIC)
instead of 0xaa55 (MBR_MAGIC) to indicate that this change has occurred.
Rework MBR_BS_NEWMBR to mean "mbr_bootsel has moved to 400".
Modify fdisk(8) to automatically relocate the mbr_bootsel from 404 to 400
if mbr_bootsel_magic is the old value (0xaa55), and unset MBR_BS_NEWMBR
to flag that new mbr_bootsel code must be used if updating the MBR.
These changes fixes a problem where Windows 2000 or Windows XP would corrupt
the last 3 bytes + NUL of MBR partition 3's bootsel name if the bootsel name
was 5 characters long, replacing bytes 6-9 with the DSN.
Also, by explicitly reserving the space for the DSN we prevent problems in the
future if non bootsel MBR or PBR code had other information at bytes 440-443.
