Oh how I wish!  I played this silly game about six times
last week trying to do an installation on a 400Mb disk with a
couple of bad sectors in the first 30Mb - and the first
diagnostic I got was during the file extraction process!

G.
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chris Rupnik [SMTP:chrisr@beosppc.org]
> Sent:	Wednesday, 18 July 2001 10:14 am
> To:	Jenkins, Graham K [IBM GSA]; port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject:	Re: bad144 on IDE disks 
> 
> 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.
> >
> >