re: CVS commit: src

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

   Modified Files:
        src/distrib/sparc: Makefile
   Added Files:
        src/distrib/sparc: list2sh.awk runlist.sh
        src/distrib/sparc/ramdisk.sysinst: Makefile disktab.preinstall
            dot.profile.m4 list.m4 mtree.conf ramdiskbin.m4 termcap.mini
        src/distrib/sparc/ramdisk.sysinst/dist: base_obsolete comp_obsolete
            games_obsolete man_obsolete misc_obsolete secr_obsolete
            xbase_obsolete xserver_obsolete
   Log Message:
   Add sysinst setup for sparc, does not affect existing script based install.
   ramdisk.sysinst should work unchanged for i386 also. Would be good to merge
   after 1.4.


while a working sysinst for the sparc is cool and all, i'm really really
not happy to use it by default until some major problems are solved.  the
biggest one that i know of that has not been touched is the disk partitioning
tool.  i refuse to force that evil icky horrible "user interface" onto the
unsuspecting SPARC users.  and then there is the fact that it doesn't let you
change more than the very basic's.  why does it not use disklabel for much
of this?  the only partitioner i have ever used that i found worse was the
DUh 4.x installer's.  gosh, after reading the code it i see also has:

* FIXME -- disklabel-editing code assumes that partition 'a' is always root.

which is not acceptable.  i also notice there is some support for MSDOS
filesystems but it won't even remotely work.  what about LFS?


in short:  good work, but not for default until at *least* the partitioner
is fixed (rewritten, as far as i can tell).


(it's a pity you didn't use .PATH:, etc., to find the duplicated files,
but whatever).