bin/135565: a patch for sysinstall to look at UFS partitions

[Daniel O'Connor]

>Number:         135565
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       a patch for sysinstall to look at UFS partitions
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jun 14 04:10:02 UTC 2009
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Daniel O'Connor
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD inchoate.localdomain 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Apr  5 13:18:12 CST 2009     darius at inchoate.localdomain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/INCHOATE  i386


>Description:
The following patch teaches sysinstall about treating UFS partitions as disks.
This allows you to read cfg files and dists off it.

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
This is only a straw man patch I haven't had time to fully test it.
Also, libdisks support of extended partitions is not the same as the kernel
which can be a problem if you have an "odd" setup (like my laptop :)

http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/sysinstall-ufs-disk.diff



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