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- From: explorer@iastate.edu (Michael Graff)
- Subject: Re: SUMMARY of answers to: "how to label partition to 386BSD?"
- Message-ID: <explorer.713810467@tbird.cc.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <1992Aug13.231848.7930@access.usask.ca> <1992Aug14.150220.1560@rwwa.COM>
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 16:41:07 GMT
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- In <1992Aug14.150220.1560@rwwa.COM> witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow) writes:
-
- >WRT the standard single hard drive configuration:
-
- >I don't understand why people what to go to all that *unnecessary* effort:
- >just do what the instructions tell you to do!!!
-
- [ wish-type instructions deleted ]
-
- >That's it!!! DON'T CREATE OTHER PARTITIONS using fdisk, DON'T RUN
- >DISK EDITORS, or anything. The install procedure will notice that
- >you have free space on your disk that is not assigned to any partition,
- >and will do the right thing.
-
- Funny... It sure as hell didn't on my systems... None of the 4 I've
- tried to install went quite that well. ;)
-
- There's a lot of hardware differences out there, and assuming that it
- worked for you so it'll work that way for everyone is unrealistic.
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