run before we create an output window. On a swapping VAX it can take
seriously longer, and we get interactive status display even if the program
did not produce any error output otherwise.
and not checking the result of localtime can lead to tears.
Add a safectime() that always returns a good string, and add some debugging
so that we can see if there is indeed something wrong in the new libc time
code.
from Eugene Lozovoy: add extended partitioning options to sysinst.
Still needs some testing and polishing, but it now is possible to use GPT
or to create a RAID set from scratch and install onto it.
This commit only physically moves the sources - there are no other
changes, to maximize the probability that this will be treated as a
rename if we ever do manage to migrate away from CVS.
Moving sysinst has been discussed on and off for years and has two
goals: making it easier to work on sysinst, and also making sysinst
available on running systems for use installing chroots and VM images
and other such things. None of the latter is possible yet, but as they
say, one thing at a time.
Doing this now was approved in an impromptu fashion by mrg, riz,
riastradh, me, and groo.
