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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!mcrcim.mcgill.edu!sifon!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9 partitioning Date: 2 Sep 1993 20:03:48 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 34 Message-ID: <265jj4$6cr@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <746948012.8813.0@unix7.andrew.cmu.edu> <1993Sep2.161156.11217@prepress.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca In article <1993Sep2.161156.11217@prepress.com> Bob Costa <costa@benton.prepress.com> writes: >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!) I don't quite see what the big prolbem here is. You pretty much need to know all the info about the hard disk to set it up in the BIOS of your machine, and if you forget it, it's pretty easy to load the BIOS setup and get the info again. I did this, and even though I had to break out a calculator, I still found the setup entirely trivial, and it worked like a charm the first time, which is FAR more than I can say for trying to set up real partitioning under 386bsd, which nixed the disk three times before I gave up. Again, this is all FREE stuff, meaning these people have NO obligation whatsoever to make the setup program as nice as xxx's install program. If enough people want it, then I'm sure somebody will go and fix it. Why not make this project for yourself? Toodleip! Marc 'em. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Montreal, Canada "Satan has a stranglehold on my toilet and he won't let go!" - frm the Weekly World News