On 18-Aug-98 Phil Nelson spoke unto us all:
#  I like your changes.  We might add an additional fixed parameter that
#  says to display the subwindow or don't display the sub window.

Thats not a bad idea at all..  I imagine a parameter like:

 int show;
        if show = 1; show stderr + stdout
        if show = 2; show stderr
        if show = 3; show stdout
        if show = 4; dont even draw the subwindow.

Just for future flexibility.

#  In
#  both cases, we could log all interaction to a file so future questions
#  of "sysinst blew up ...", we could ask for the log file.

Hell.. if it blew up.. we could have an option: format these logs into a PR.
and then tell the user to just email the output to gnats bugs.

#  And that
#  would be a good place build a script file to redo the install.  I'm
#  not sure, but I *think* all the install work is run through the sub-process
#  commands.  That is, if one reran all the same programs with the same
#  parameters, one would get an identical installation.  (The only things
#  that might not be done this way are files that get written to /etc
#  (/mnt/etc)
#  and they could be added to the script file by approiate calls to echo.)

I was thinking along those lines.. hadn't thought of the /etc stuff..  You are
right.. we use fprintf's in there to do that..  I'll have to fiddle around in
my head for a way to do that without over-duplicating the code there..  the
best way is to probably add it to the script somehow with:

cat /etc/foo < EOX
stuff
EOX

Either way.. I'll get started this week on banging away at that stuff.. looks
like I need to either sacrifice a box for this.. or hack it to issue dummy
commands for everything.. (you don't happen to have patches for that do you,
just thought you might for development work)

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Tim Rightnour    -  root@garbled.net
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