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From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com>
To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
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Subject: Re: sysinstall
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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.  ;^)

-- 
          "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                       Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr                       softweyr@xmission.com