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Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2002 20:10:24 -0500
From:      Nathan Mace <nmace85@yahoo.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Intaller (was "Re: ... RedHat ...")
Message-ID:  <200201240113.UAA26034@uce55.uchaswv.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3C4F5BEE.294FDCF5@mindspring.com>
References:  <20020123114658.A514@lpt.ens.fr> <20020123124025.A60889@HAL9000.wox.org> <3C4F5BEE.294FDCF5@mindspring.com>

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On Wednesday 23 January 2002 07:57 pm, Terry Lambert wrote:
> David Schultz wrote:
> > I think FreeBSD's installer could be better, too, but it works in a
> > fairly straightforward manner as long as you don't have strange
> > hardware.
>
> FreeBSD's disk "slicing" and "partitioning" really sucks.
>
> The display in 512B sectors is not also in KB/MB/GB, even
> though there is plenty of room for the display.  The "help"
> doesn't indicate "G" is an acceptable suffix (like it does
> "M").

umm...i believe it is the 'z' key that changes it from sectors to kb to mb to 
gb.  if it's not 'z' I KNOW it's listed in the little table of contents 
towards the bottom of the screen

nathan

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