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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: anybody using Netbsd?
Date: 13 May 93 12:32:42
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: T.D.G.Sandford@bradford.ac.uk's message of Thu, 13 May 1993 14:01:26 GMT
In article <1993May13.140126.6939@bradford.ac.uk> T.D.G.Sandford@bradford.ac.uk (TDG SANDFORD) writes:
=>It would however be nice if the install process were able to make some
=>intelligent guesses, both for disk geometry and also for partition sizes,
=>and offered these as defaults - thus helping the novice user while not
=>preventing the more experienced user from customising their own setup.
umm, unfortunately, because of time and manpower constraints, that
wasn't really possible. we hope to have a better install program
for 0.9 and 1.0...
(you'll note that i *did* try to give useful hints in the install
documentation for partition sizes, but even those weren't that great,
and obviously hints for disk geometry would be useless...)
=>IMHO, for the *novice* user, the NetBSD installation is less good than the
=>386bsd installation - though it is much more powerful. For the moderately
=>experienced user the opposite probably applies.
i'd agree with that, i think... (but hey, it's really easy for
me to install... but then, i've sorta got my disk geometries
memorized by now... 8-)
we're hoping to do something about that for 0.9...
chris
who's planning to announce something about source updates RSN... 8-)
--
Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you
find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass