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From: gendalia@menelos.cs.iastate.edu (Tracy J. Di Marco)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular?
Date: 23 Aug 1995 02:38:57 GMT
Organization: Chaos
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Olaf Seibert <rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl> wrote:
}Exactly. Partitioning the second disk by hand was what took the
}most time of my NetBSD install. The actual installation is trivial,
}IMHO. Just have the file with the instructions printed out so you
}can read it :-)

Hmm... I didn't want to partition the second disk by hand, so I edited
the install script to just do disklabeling. :)
-- 
Tracy Di Marco                           gendalia@solstice.cc.iastate.edu
'"Actually this is a common misconception...I do *not* in fact have a lot
  of time on my hands at all! I just have a very very very very bad sense
  of priorities."       --Dean Engelhardt'    -- David Sweeney