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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: NetBSD install1.fs1 chokes Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Thu, 6 May 1993 16:46:01 GMT Message-ID: <C6M6Kq.Aww@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <1rr0ke$snp@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <1rrlnk$6dp@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <DERAADT.93May1173014@newt.fsa.ca> Lines: 17 In article <DERAADT.93May1173014@newt.fsa.ca> deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes: > > But these cylinder boundary calculations are really anachronisms. Leave that > > to a computer program !!!!!!! > The install program does not know about the DOS partition information. I don't think that's what he's getting at. He just wants to be asked: "You have 340MB available. How many MB do you want for root? For usr? For swap?" Then let the package figure a close boundary. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Har du kramat din varg idag? 'U` "Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge."