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From: wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Sorry, everyone, but I'm cpio clueless...
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Date: 19 Jul 92 17:01:45 GMT
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With regards to the 0.1 install program, yes, it only creates one big
partition for the whole set of files, with a 5MB "b" partition and a "c"
partition that spans the entire FDISK partition. Sorry no options yet.

As the INSTALL.NOTE's mention, to install it the prior, manual way by
writing a disktab entry is *not documented*, although possible with the
new FIXIT floppy. Crossing between the two mechanisms is also possible
but not reccomended unless you really know what you are doing (also, since
totally untested by us, may provoke bugs we are totally unaware of).

The install program is still under development (this is a surprise?), being
a recent addition, and one on which we'd like to hear some well considered
discussion, because of the choices possible. It's hard for a system this
complex to be installed by a naive user (we have approx 80,000 of these),
yet it should not be too much of a straight jacket for experienced ones.
Lynne chose MSDOS's model to begin with, but it's just a start. You'd be
surprised just how hard she worked just to get that straight.

Bill.