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From: hpeyerl@novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9 partitioning
Date: 3 Sep 1993 02:21:28 GMT
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Bob Costa (costa@benton.prepress.com) wrote:
: 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...
A decent installation program is a great idea and there is some work in
progress on that but there is also a lot of other work in progress...
Remember this is a volunteer effort... If you'd like to write and send
us some code though..........
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