From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 23 17:11:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from uce55.uchaswv.edu (uce55.uchaswv.edu [12.4.161.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C3137B41A for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:11:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([172.16.32.103]) by uce55.uchaswv.edu (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA26034; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 20:13:13 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200201240113.UAA26034@uce55.uchaswv.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Nathan Mace To: Terry Lambert , David Schultz , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Intaller (was "Re: ... RedHat ...") Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 20:10:24 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <20020123114658.A514@lpt.ens.fr> <20020123124025.A60889@HAL9000.wox.org> <3C4F5BEE.294FDCF5@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <3C4F5BEE.294FDCF5@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message