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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!olivea!pagesat!news.cerf.net!benton.prepress.com!nuntius From: Bob Costa <costa@benton.prepress.com> Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9 partitioning Message-ID: <1993Sep2.161156.11217@prepress.com> Sender: usenet@prepress.com (Usenet login) Nntp-Posting-Host: costa.prepress.com Organization: Prepress Technologies X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1b2 References: <746948012.8813.0@unix7.andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 16:11:56 GMT Lines: 13 In article <MYCROFT.93Sep2031533@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Charles Hannum, mycroft@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu writes: > So your saying it wouldn't be possible to make the installation script "user friendly"? Come on... "you have 529940 (512 byte) blocks, make sure to partition on cylinder boundaries." (break out your calculator!) Also, If 386bsd could sense 'already existing DOS partitons' and partition around it, why cant NetBSD? "and don't forget to use a partition editor..." gez... costa@benton.prepress.com