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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!carson.u.washington.edu!ganter From: ganter@carson.u.washington.edu (Mark Ganter) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: anybody using Netbsd? Date: 13 May 1993 05:08:01 GMT Organization: University of Washington Lines: 19 Message-ID: <1ssl3hINNp2q@news.u.washington.edu> References: <1993May6.153723.16314@cs.yale.edu> <1sfdft$51r@leps5.phys.psu.edu> <1sndra$a7d@agate.berkeley.edu> <CGD.93May12180754@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: >(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 G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu Chris, I for one would like to publically say that I really like the ability to make size choices for the partitions. It is the ONLY intelligent choice. Example: If you add more memory you might want to change swap size. So, my current system has only 8MB of memory but will have 16 MB soon. So, an autoinstall would size my swap to 16MB of disk but I know I want 32MB. I don't have to reinstall due to change in memory. I choose 32MB of swap at install. Thank you for being able to have a choice....Mark Mark Ganter/Univ of Washington/Seattle,WA 98195 USA/ganter@u.washington.edu