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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: anybody using Netbsd?
Date: 12 May 93 18:07:54
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: cuccia@remarque.berkeley.edu's message of 11 May 1993 05:33:30 GMT
In article <1sndra$a7d@agate.berkeley.edu> cuccia@remarque.berkeley.edu (Nick Cuccia) writes:
>I'm still trying to figure out what the gripe is regarding NetBSD's installation
>procedures. I found that the installation of NetBSD went much smoother than
>my initial installation of 386bsd.
thoughts:
(1) people needed to know their drive geometries, rather than have
an install program guess, and, in lots of cases, get it wrong...
(the 386bsd 0.1 install program did *bad things*... e.g.,
on my cp3100 disk on boat-anchor, the swap partition overran
the end of the disk by like 2M...)
the reason that no install program was done was simply because
nobody wrote one; i didn't have time, and nobody did it, so...
(2) people had to pick sizes for their partitions.
some could say that this makes installation more difficult,
i see it as nothing other than a big win...
chris
--
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