But that is my point. According to the documentation, sysinst DOES do it.

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jenkins, Graham K [IBM GSA]" <Graham.K.Jenkins@team.telstra.com>
To: <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 7:11 PM
Subject: RE: bad144 on IDE disks


> > >>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?
> >
> >Hey, wow, I didn't know that.  I'm wondering if it reserves the
> space
> >on the end of the c or the d partition, though.
>
> Still doesn't help if disk had some bad sectors when it is first
> formatted during 'sysinst' execution ..
>
> G.
>
>