Subject: Re: misc/446: installation script typos (text messages...)
To: Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@alpha.bostic.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/30/1994 19:52:34
> /usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/inst/install.sh:
> 
>         echo    "For best disk performance, partitions should being and end on"
> 							      ^^^^^-- begin
>         echo    "cylinder boundaries.  Wherever possible, pick sizes that are"
>         echo -n "multiples are multiples of the cylinder size ($cylindersize"
>                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^--- remove
>         echo    "sectors)."
> 
> ...
>         echo    "$units_left $sizeunit remaining in NetBSD portion of disk."
>         echo -n "Swap partition size (in $sizeunit)? "
>         getresp

fixed, fixed,

> Should probably say something about common convention for choosing 
> swap space?  Maybe provide a default based on the available physical
> memory (limited by the available remaining disk space)?  The physical 
> memory can be had via /kern/physmem and /kern/pagesize -- in that 
> case /kern needs to be mounted... (KERNFS is in the i386 GENERIC* 
> kernels).

This is covered in the install notes.  (all of this stuff will be
replaced eventually, anyway, so...)

> ...
> 
> 	echo -n "Creating a fstab..."
> 
> I think it should be "an fstab" if you insist on using a/an.

all of the grammar rules i learned said that it should be 'a' not 'an'...

> ...
> 
> /usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/upgr/upgrade.sh:
> 
>         echo    "No disk edvices."
> 			 ^^- swap
> 
> (I know, I know, "nobody" will notice this... :-)

fixed, as well.  if somebody bumps into this, they have more problems
than spelling.  8-)




chris

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