freebsd-skq/sbin/sysinstall/bootarea.h
phk 79436024c1 Public apology:
I have walked all over Paul Richards code again, and severely lobotomized
some of his stuff, in order to cut some corners for the 2.0-Alpha release.
I belive that we can now manipulate fdisk and disklabel-stuff sufficiently
for the release to actually be produced.
It's not that I don't like Paul and his code, I just need something I
can kick out of the door RSN.

Sysinstall is now under absolute code-freeze, only Jordan has my permission
to commit to this code (stage0 & 5).  I would appreciate if everybody
else would finds problems in sysinstall send patches to me, and I will
commit them. THANKYOU.

The fdisk/disklabel editors are made in pure ncurses, and follow a model
"a`la spreadsheet".

There are some important functions which are missing still, and I would
appreciate if somebody would look at them.
The FDISK part needs a "whole-disk" option, and it needs a "rewrite
MBR-boot code" option.
The DISKLABEL part needs to be able to "import DOS-partition".
Both need a "HELP" function, (display a file "/HELP" using dialog is OK).

It seems to me like the wd.c and sd.c should reread the physical record
when a DIOCGDINFO is made, so that they can pick up changes in the
MBR-data.  Otherwise there will be a couple of weird cases where we
cannot avoid replicating code from the kernel.

If you want to play with this, look at src/release/Makefile.  You may need
to step back to version 1.38 of sys/i386/isa/fd.c to make "rootable"
floppies, it is not clear at this time if that indeed is the problem I
have been having.

Sleep well, my friends, and expect the real Alpha in 24H, if the tree is
still solid.
1994-11-01 10:10:43 +00:00

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/*
* Copyright (c) 1994, Paul Richards.
*
* All rights reserved.
*
* This software may be used, modified, copied, distributed, and
* sold, in both source and binary form provided that the above
* copyright and these terms are retained, verbatim, as the first
* lines of this file. Under no circumstances is the author
* responsible for the proper functioning of this software, nor does
* the author assume any responsibility for damages incurred with
* its use.
*/
#define BOOT1 "/stand/sdboot"
#define BOOT2 "/stand/bootsd"
/* XXX -- calculate these, this is nasty */
#define DEFFSIZE 1024
#define DEFFRAG 8
int Mb_to_cylbdry(int, struct disklabel *);
void default_disklabel(struct disklabel *, int, int);
int disk_size(struct disklabel *);