Re: Sysinst "bypass fdisk" option?

["Andrew Ball" <aball%students.prairiestate.edu@localhost>]

Hello David,

  DL> sysinst is designed to install into the native disk
    > format, for i386 this means that the disks are
    > expected to have an mbr.  To do otherwise just allows
    > naive users to dig themselves into a big hole.

    It has been suggested to me that anyone awkward enough
to want a disklabel without an MBR (and 'BIOS level'
partitions) probably has enough experience to install NetBSD
without the aid of sysinst.  I suppose I have to decide
whether I dislike fdisk more than I like sysinst.

Thanks,
  - Andy Ball.