I happen to be browsing my Wasabi 1.5 release notes, and this is stated
(page 8 of the little CD booklet)

"The Install program will automatically reserve space for bad144 tables"

this is during them talking about formatting disk with sysinst. So, question
is, does it really reserve the space, and thus you CAN use sysinst to
install and have it automatically reserve the bad144 space?

Thanks

Chris


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Darrow" <John.P.Darrow@wheaton.edu>
To: <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
Cc: <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: bad144 on IDE disks


> Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net> wrote:
> >> >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.
>
> Don't forget to MAKEDEV!  You probably won't even be able to get to
> single user mode without it...
>
> Other things that sysinst does, such as setting the root password or
> modifying rc.conf, are optional.  In fact, having sysinst change rc.conf
> really annoys me, because it prevents me from getting a snapshot of the
> original to use for later diffs (e.g. against a 'make distribution'
> later on...)
>
> Still, I really like using sysinst to set up my partitions, and it
> would be nice if things like the 'start at end of partition x'/'end at
> start of partition x' and not just rounding but also viewing as
> sectors/cylinders/megabytes could be incorporated into (at least)
> disklabel's interactive mode.
>
> jdarrow
>
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