On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Andy Ball wrote:

>   GF> "Standard", or "Standard with X" in sysinst, instead
>     > of "Custom"...
>
> Ah, so /that's/ where it went!  I'm glad I've learned to do
> it manually though, it's given me enough control to spread
> NetBSD across two disks in a much more organised fassion
> than I have before (see port-i386 archives ;-)

Exactly. And to be honest, I always go for Custom anyway... more control,
as you say.

>   GF> The actual limit depends on the BIOS.. on newer
>     > BIOSes, I think you can have it anywhere within the
>     > first 8 gigabytes.
>
> Didn't I just say that? ;-)  I needn't worry about the 8Gb
> barrier on this machine yet... it only has a 1.7Gb drive.
> Perhaps it's another reason to be wary of ATA drives.  I'm
> using what I have to hand.

Indeed you did. :)

>   GF> Looks fairly sane. / is arguably a little big, but if
>     > you're planning on putting a lot in /var, that might
>     > not be such a bad thing.
>
> Thanks.  I'm not sure yet just how quickly /var will grow on
> this box.  If it's sane I suspect that's more by luck than
> good judgement! :-)

Well your / is bigger than the / on all of my boxes, so unless you're
going to be install MySQL or something else that puts big files in /var,
you should be fine.

>   GF> That's right, at least for the i386 port.
>
> Is the same disklabel program used on other ports?  Do the
> letter conventions differ much?

The i386 port is more the exception than the rule. In general, 'c' is the
whole disc, but the i386 port calls this 'd' and has the notion of the
'NetBSD part of the disc', which it calls 'c'. There may be other ports
which do a similar thing, but I'm not aware of any off the top of my head.

> Thanks for your feedback, it's appreciated.

No problem.

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