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From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
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Subject: RFE for sysinstall
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>Number:         5082
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Permit upgrade of multi-disk system, or document workaround
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Nov 18 05:10:00 PST 1997
>Closed-Date:    Tue Dec 29 20:03:23 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:  Tue Dec 29 20:04:17 PST 1998
>Originator:     Mark Newton
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-971006-SNAP i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

	System with OS distributed over more than one disk

>Description:

	sysinstall does not provide the opportunity to automatically
	upgrade a system with more than one disk.  

	One of my systems features / and /usr on one disk, and /var on
	another (deals with lots of mail, no space on main disk for /var!).  
	sysinstall does not provide the opportunity to select more than 
	one disk during an upgrade in a way similar to its ability to 
	select more than one disk during an installation.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Duplicate the setup described above.

>Fix:
	
	During an initial installation, sysinstall prompts the user
	for a list of disks for the installation.  Although it (silently!)
	limits the number of disks that can be chosen, it does permit
	more than one.  If more than one disk is selected, the partitioning
	tool and the disklabel editor allow multiple disk selections.

	Theoretically, sysinstall could use the same dialog box prior 
	to displaying the disklabel editor during an upgrade.  

	Perhaps an easier-to-implement solution would be to document
	the procedure need to upgrade a multi-disk system:  After the
	disklabel editor is finished, sysinstall starts the holographic
	shell and prompts for installation media.  It is possible to
	switch to the shell, mount all filesystems needed during the
	upgrade, and then switch back to select installation media.
	Granted, this isn't as clean, but it works.


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: newton 
State-Changed-When: Tue Dec 29 20:03:23 PST 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
Fixed sometime before may '98 when sysinstall's label editor started 
to provide info about all attached disks when doing an upgrade 
>Unformatted:
