On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 11:26:19AM -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> > Then I tried the fresh install option, but it wants me to repartition
> > the disk which I do not want to do.
> 
> Why not.  If you have done a newfs then there is nothing to save.

Yes there is ;-)  I don't want to type in the partition information again
to get the same partitions on the disk.  The /, /usr, /var, /home, and
swap partitions I have are good enough for me, so why should I enter the
cylinder numbers again?

> Is
> thereanother OS on the drive that you are trying to protect?

There's a small DOS partition for hibernation mode.

> I think
> that the install program lets you keep other partitions unchanged.

Yes.  Except for the NetBSD partitions.  It wants me to do it all over
again. :-(

Oh well, I guess it's easier just to untar the tarballs manually..

  -jm