Subject: Re: bad144 on IDE disks
To: John Darrow <John.P.Darrow@wheaton.edu>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/17/2001 20:53:09
> >> 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...
it's the thing i forget most cases. in myself-made binaries (only 3 .tgz,
pentium-opt) i've added all devs in it.
> 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

sysinst does newfs without asking for options like -c, -i, -m