Subject: Re: Installing from dos-formatted ZIP drive
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Martin Loeffler <martin.loeffler@utoronto.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/27/1996 17:24:21
At 03:40 PM 2/27/96 -0500, Eric S. Hvozda wrote:
>
>Ah I see the source of your confusion.
>
>Ken's hints are for any _hard_ disk that contains MS-D0G that you want
>to mount.  In your example above, you are using a _floppy_ drive.  
>Floppies are pretty majikal when it comes to disklabels (ie partitions ==
>density on floppies; partitions == disk regions on hard disks)...

(:grumbles about Linux being able to read the disk - Why shouldn't NetBSD?)

Ok, is there then a way to change the default editor for disklabel from vi
to something that's on the install floppies? 

M.
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