Subject: Re: Anyone trying to use new sysinst, please read.
To: Andreas Gustafsson <gson@araneus.fi>
From: Scott Telford <st@epcc.ed.ac.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/05/1999 13:16:13
>    Okay, the first part of the procedure is finished.  sysinst has
>    written a disklabel to the target disk, and newfs'ed and fsck'ed 
>    the new partitions you specified for the target disk.  
> 
> That gave me a bit of a scare - for a moment I thought sysinst had
> actually relabeled and newfs'ed (in other words, erased) my disk,

Yes, I remember that giving me a bit of a scare too when I upgraded to
1.3.3. I think it definitely needs to be changed. 

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