Bill Studenmund wrote:

>On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Bob Nestor wrote:
>
>> Bill Studenmund wrote:
>> 
>> >Do you still have code to re-read the disklabel?
>> >
>[snip]
>
>Ok, I'll look in the PR.
>
There are some serious problems with the sysinst code I submitted with 
that PR.  You might want the new sysinst code too.

>> >Cool. Let's get this done soon.
>> >
>> >I'm in the process of getting installboot on the macppc to play nice with
>> >an existing Apple Partition Map, so that we can get 1.5 to coexist nicely
>> >with other OS's. :-)
>> >
>> Ah!  I was dinking with some of the same stuff on the macppc port.  Got 
>> side-tracked on the whole OF and bootable CD stuff though.  I have some 
>> utilites that might be of use to help debug this and they work on both 
>> mac68k and macppc ports.  One is a modification to the pdisk utility from 
>> MkLinux.  Basically I added a formatted dump option for decoding the 
>> Partition Map into something readable.  It runs under MacOS on both 
>> platforms.  The other utility I did was a program that does a similar 
>> thing under NetBSD.
>
>Cool. :-) Did you see the program Dan wrote a while back for playing with
>apple partition maps?
>
No, I must have missed that one.

>> >Can we get sysinst to just build an old-style filesystem? We still have
>> >the code to do it in newfs.
>> 
>> Yes we can do this.  The newfs command in sysinst is in the MI portion of 
>> the code and I tried to stay away from changes there as they might affect 
>> all other ports.  One thing I thought about was formatting the root 
>> partition in old style for the Booter, and use the new style for all the 
>> other partitions.  This wouldn't help the Installer, but if sysinst works 
>> as it should there won't be much of a need for the Installer or Mkfs.
>
>This would be a question for the sysinst folks. :-)

Or if Allen or Nigel update the Booter it may not be necessary.  Sure 
would like to get rid of that Mkfs program! ;-)

-bob