On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 12:59:00PM +0200, Bruno Flueckiger wrote:
> I see your point with the installer. Default labels make the disks
> indistinguishable. The following diff prints the raw infos from dmesg
> rather than the current list of disks:
>
> Index: distrib/miniroot/install.sub
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/distrib/miniroot/install.sub,v
> retrieving revision 1.988
> diff -u -p -r1.988 install.sub
> --- distrib/miniroot/install.sub 13 Mar 2017 17:08:31 -0000 1.988
> +++ distrib/miniroot/install.sub 30 Mar 2017 10:44:01 -0000
> @@ -264,13 +264,7 @@ diskinfo() {
> local _d
>
> for _d; do
> - make_dev $_d
> - echo -n "$_d: "
> - disklabel -dpg $_d 2>/dev/null |
> - sed -e '/^label: /{s,,,;s/ *$//;s/^$/<no label>/;h;d;}' \
> - -e '/.*# total bytes: \(.*\)/{s//(\1)/;H;}' \
> - -e '$!d;x;s/\n/ /'
> - rm -f /dev/{r,}$_d?
> + sed -n "/^$_d/p" /var/run/dmesg.boot
> done
> }
>
Your proposition is good for the installer? I doubt it.
j.
