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From: wollman@trantor.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Subject: Re: Sorry, everyone, but I'm cpio clueless...
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Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1992 19:45:15 GMT
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In article <14c75pINNh59@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes:
>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.
How's this for an idea: give the user an option to edit the disklabel
after it is written, but before newfs is called (I think `disklabel
-N' does this?). What I really want to do is let the `install'
program figure out the geometry of my drive---I don't have the
documentation any more---and write a preliminary disk label, and then
let me do the partitioning in a way that suits me.
Also, `install' should figure out how much memory is installed, and
make sure to allocate *at least* that much. (On my 16 Meg system, if
it ever gets here, I plan on allocating 32 Meg...)
-GAWollman
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