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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!bradford.ac.uk!T.D.G.Sandford From: T.D.G.Sandford@bradford.ac.uk (TDG SANDFORD) Subject: Re: anybody using Netbsd? Message-ID: <1993May13.140126.6939@bradford.ac.uk> Lines: 26 Organization: University of Bradford, UK X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9] References: <1ssl3hINNp2q@news.u.washington.edu> Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 14:01:26 GMT Mark Ganter (ganter@carson.u.washington.edu) wrote: : 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 : ..... It would however be nice if the install process were able to make some intelligent guesses, both for disk geometry and also for partition sizes, and offered these as defaults - thus helping the novice user while not preventing the more experienced user from customising their own setup. IMHO, for the *novice* user, the NetBSD installation is less good than the 386bsd installation - though it is much more powerful. For the moderately experienced user the opposite probably applies. -- Thomas Sandford | t.d.g.sandford@bradford.ac.uk