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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!not-for-mail From: gendalia@menelos.cs.iastate.edu (Tracy J. Di Marco) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Date: 27 Aug 1995 04:29:49 GMT Organization: Chaos Lines: 25 Message-ID: <41osbt$s31@news.iastate.edu> References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> <4132n5$8et@wn1.sci.kun.nl> <41e4c1$1u6@news.iastate.edu> <MICHAELV.95Aug25001637@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: solstice.cc.iastate.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:913 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5373 Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote: }In article <41e4c1$1u6@news.iastate.edu> gendalia@menelos.cs.iastate.edu (Tracy J. Di Marco) writes: } } Olaf Seibert <rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl> wrote: } } }Exactly. Partitioning the second disk by hand was what took the } }most time of my NetBSD install. The actual installation is trivial, } }IMHO. Just have the file with the instructions printed out so you } }can read it :-) } } Hmm... I didn't want to partition the second disk by hand, so I edited } the install script to just do disklabeling. :) } }Oh sure. There's one in every crowd. It must be because she's not a }guy... Sure, just cause you didn't think of it... (It's actually been pretty handy... I've added 2 more disks in the last month, and I hate disklabel.) -- Tracy Di Marco gendalia@solstice.cc.iastate.edu '"Actually this is a common misconception...I do *not* in fact have a lot of time on my hands at all! I just have a very very very very bad sense of priorities." --Dean Engelhardt' -- David Sweeney