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From: Bob Costa <costa@benton.prepress.com>
Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9 partitioning
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In article <MYCROFT.93Sep2031533@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Charles Hannum,
mycroft@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu writes:
>

So your saying it wouldn't be possible to make the installation script
"user friendly"?  Come on... "you have 529940 (512 byte) blocks, make
sure to partition on cylinder boundaries."  (break out your calculator!) 

Also, If 386bsd could sense 'already existing DOS partitons' and
partition around it, why cant NetBSD?  "and don't forget to use a
partition editor..."  gez...

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