sysinstall dead in -CURRENT?

Pyun YongHyeon yongari at kt-is.co.kr
Wed Dec 22 00:31:35 PST 2004


On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:53:46AM -0600, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
 > > Ok, here is a better workaround. This patch should also fix another
 > > error of sysinstall. At present, sysinstall presents SCSI CDROM
 > > to available disks in Fdisk/Label menu. It seems that the root
 > > cause is GEOM's disk handling.("kern.disk" always shows SCSI CDROM
 > > and it is used as an argument to Open_Disk())
 > > 
 > > So I added an additioanl check for CDROM in sysinstall instead of
 > > touching libdisk. Please let me know how it goes. And I'd like
 > > to know it doesn't break i386 sysinstall too. Due to lack of i386 with
 > > SCSI CDROM I couldn't verify the patch.
 > 
 > Yep, your patch does work, I think it's a valid workaround that would
 > help if worked into -CURRENT, I cannot imagine anywhere else where

Thanks, committed.
 > addressing the SCSI CD-Rom like you would a regular HD would get you
 > into trouble, any other libdisk-caused errors?
 > 

Users would be confused if CDROM device appear on Fdisk/Label memu.

 > -R. Tyler Ballance
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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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