Make supported file system types dynamic - instead of hardcoding the
available types at compile time, check for available newfs_* helper
binaries in the actual install environment at runtime.
to get rid of all disklabel assumptions.
Previously (even for GPT partitioning) struct disklabel was used, which
obviously breaks large disk setups. Also many MD parts and parts of the
user interface assumed (a) a struct disklabel is used internally to
store partitioning information and (b) partitions are named 'a' ... $MAXPART.
Get rid of this and replace it with a quite abstract interface that should
be able to deal with all variants in partition storage:
- partitions are stored in a (partly abstract) struct disk_partitions
and most parts of it are only accessed via accessor functions provided
by a "partitioning scheme".
- implement partitioning schemes for MBR, disklabel and GPT (with likely
RDB [amiga] and Apple Partition Map [mac*] to follow soon)
- partitioning schemes may be cascaded, e.g. on x86 when using MBR as
"outer partitions", we have disklabel as "inner partitions".
- all user interface goes via accessor functions in the partitioning scheme,
some of which return pointers to special user interface descriptors
(e.g. to allow editing partition flags, which are scheme specific)
Overall the user interface changes (in this initial step) are minimal but
noticable. A new Anita is needed for automatic test setups - many thanks
to Andreas Gustafsson for lots of early testing and a new Anita version,
and to Manuel Bouyer for cooperation and tests of the Anita release.
This work was sponsored by The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
Avoid open coding snprintf return value checking and introduce a
helper functions that always ensures string termination instead,
suggested by christos.
Skip CDs when looking for install targets (we do not support installing
onto a blueray with UDF).
Fix search for the default CDROM device and the CD we booted from
for ports with nonstandard CDROM device names.
transfers. This is slightly inconsistent, as directories are still
shared - but this allows us to default to cdn/nycdn for http (which don't
support ftp).
get rid of the global "yesno", introduce utility functions "ask_yesno()"
and "ask_noyes()" instead, greatly simplifying a lot of code.
Pass in a pointer to the return value to various "set source" menus.
for wedges on the given disk. Call this after writing a disklabel.
This makes all auto-discovered wedges go away after we changed the
partitioning (and are not using GPT) and fixes PR 49665.
md_post_disklabel() and md_pre_update(), abstract them out to an MI
set_swap_if_low_ram() and call from the appropriate MI places.
Now all platforms add swap if the system has <= 32M of RAM.
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.
martin