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Date:      Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:22:42 +0100 (BST)
From:      Sebastien Maraux <smaraux@cpc.westminster.ac.uk>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   sysinstall hacking - urgent
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906241210020.32232-100000@seth.cpc.wmin.ac.uk>

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I currently use sysinstall with the install.cfg configuration file for an
automatic installation.

I need to make sysinstall formating only a small FreeBSD partition of the
disk and not the whole disk, or the free space.

I already have a function that give me the size of the partition that I
need to format.

I would just like to choose the offset and the size for create_chunk().

The file that interest me is disks.c, in /usr/src/release/sysinstall, at
the end, there is the all and free options...

I would like to create another option, added to "all" and "free",
says "custom" where I could specify the offset and the size.
The problem is that I can't do this by taking some parts of "free" option
code, because it doesn't seem to work ("unable to find X slice" or
something like that, "X" is set in create_chunk.c, see later) 

Can anybody give me the structure of a whole disk accorded to sysinstall?
with chunk structures, ...

Or if someone know how to implement this, I would be glad to heard about
it...
(I think that I could take the code of "free" option a little bit 
modified)
Others useful files are /usr/src/lib/libdisk/ create_chunk.c and chunk.c

Thanks!

	Sebastien MARAUX



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