Subject: Re: 1.4 install without repartitioning?
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/13/1999 09:38:55
	You should be at least able to use 'install additional sets'

		David/absolute

     		  -=-  "cold nights, dark days..."  -=-

On Thu, 13 May 1999, Jukka Marin wrote:

> 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
>