Subject: Re: bad144 on IDE disks
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/17/2001 07:52:30
> >try everything manually - it's really fast method :)
>
> I actually don't think this is reasonable; even if hard-core guys install
> by hand, we _need_ something like sysinst to make it easier for newbies
> to install.

add cat /etc/install-help to /etc/profile at root diskette.
all you have to do is to partition drives, newfs, installboot, untar.

> The real problem right now is that bad144 is busted on IDE drives for
> i386 if you have a Windows and NetBSD partition on the same drive.
>
> --Ken
>