Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 19:58:49 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall Message-ID: <199709040158.TAA13563@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970901233729.307W-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> References: <7098.873094588@time.cdrom.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970901233729.307W-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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John Fieber writes:
> For a tradeoff example, do you do the partitioning or
> distribution selection first? If you do partitioning first, the
> distribution selection can advise you about what will fit. But,
> if the distributions are selected first, then the user (or the
> system) can make more informed choices about partitioning.
Shades of the SunOS "free hog" partition. Anyone else remember that
wonderful line drawing of a pig with wings in the 4.1.x manual set? We
should *definitely* revive that graphic somewhere. ;^)
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