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From: Bob Costa <costa@benton.prepress.com>
Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9 partitioning
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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1993 16:23:56 GMT
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Come on people, lets please make distinctions!
Obviously we are all endebted to the good people working on this project,
and my comments are in no way ment to reflect poorly on their character
or their skill level.
but as osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) put it:
>The installation sux rocks. It's difficult and generally a pain.
>This is the main stumbling block that I see to *BSD gaining wider
acceptance.
I know there's a problem when the only way I can get NetBSD to reside
peacefully in a partition next to DOS is to let 386bsd carve up the
drive, then install NetBSD's base system on top of it.
And as mentioned before by Charles Hannum, mycroft@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu:
>The 386BSD installation procedure created two partitions on my
machine--one 5MB
>swap partition, and the rest in root. In theory, this is a lousy
setup.
Like I said, lets make distinctions. The instalation program could be
improved upon. The authors are still excellent engineers. The two are
completely separate issues.
costa@benton.prepress.com