Hi all,

I've been looking a bit into making sysinst able to install across 
several disks. Here are some ideas. Comments are very welcome:
	
Change let the variables 'disk' and 'diskdev' be an arrays, that 
contains all disks, that we want to install onto. Change find_disks() 
to fill up this array according to user choice. 'dlcyl', 'dlhead' etc. 
need to bee arrays as well.

Now md_make_bsd_partitions() needs to make bsdlabel an array over disks 
and partitions. Basically we'll run make bsd_partitions for each disk. 
We obviously need to write the disklabelfor each disk in 
write_disklabel().

We might want to update make_filesystems() to ensure that nested 
partitions are created and mounted in the correct order (e.g. /usr 
before /usr/src).

make_fstab() might also need some ordering.

...just a thought. I hope I find some time to refresh my C skills and 
to work on this.

Daniel


On torsdag, jan 2, 2003, at 02:26 Europe/Copenhagen, Luke Mewburn wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 06:32:55PM +0100, Daniel Eggert wrote:
>   | Is there any plan to extend sysinst to allow for an 
> (semi-automatic)
>   | install across  several hard disks (e.g. root on sd0a, swap on 
> sd1a,
>   | etc.).
>   |
>   | ...or are there any plans for a more 'fancy' install utility for 
> NetBSD?
>
> Yes, there has been work in this front.  The responsible developer(s)
> may "speak up" about this themselves.