Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/notes/common

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

>  * Mention mbrlabel(8) to get existing MBR partitions into a disklabel

That is likely to happen automatically.

>  * Default disklabel name doesn't seem to be "mydisk" any longer
>    (judging by this week's installation of 2.0_BETA/i386)

That bit is all fubar'd...  any suggestions welcome!
There are two 'name' fields in the disklabel, d_typename and d_diskname.
One might think that sysinst would be playing with d_diskname - but that
isn't the case - maybe because disklabel looks the disk up by d_typename?
In any case sysinst defaults to the value in the existing label, which
will be the manufacters type for an ATA disk.
"mydisk" is used if the field in the currect label is unset.

> Todo:
>  * Enter size of extracted sets w/o X and of X sets (done for 2.0/i386)
>    (Portmasters?)

The minimum size for "/" and "/usr" are also out of date, and, IMHO,  fairly
pointless.
(The size of "/" of only big enough because the default allows for a few
system dumps!)

The 'mbr' editor has the wooly text:

> A few hundred MB is enough for a basic installation, but you should allow 
> extra for additional software and user files.
> Allow at least 5GB if you want to build NetBSD itself.

Which is probably adequate - especially given the sizes of any disks
that haven't yet died!

Also might be worth mentioning that you can get a shell prompt by
typing ^Z (and typing fg to resume sysinst).

        David

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