Re: Benchmarking

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

:Here's a diff... but I also wanted to insert a note of using fdisk
:interactively to change partition types (a very common situation), but
:couldn't figure out the command from the manpage (fdisk /dev/ad0 just
:seems to print out the partition table).  I did it on my machine with
:the FreeBSD install much earlier and didn't need to mess with it
:again.
:
:Rahul

    Ok, not bad.  I'm going to edit-down the first part a bit... we really
    do not have to explain windows/dos programs to people, I would far 
    prefer that someone with no experience at all not even try to keep their
    existing configuration intact, since they are likely to blow it up anyway.
    But everything else is fine, I'll commit something tonight.

						-Matt

:--- README	Tue Mar  9 01:55:50 2004
:+++ README.new	Tue Mar  9 02:24:22 2004
:@@ -23,27 +23,41 @@
:     Manual installation of DragonFly onto an HD involve the following sequence
:     of commands.  You must be familiar with BSD style UNIX systems to do
:     installations manually.  The primary IDE hard drive is typically 'ad0'
:-    and DragonFly is typically installed onto the first slice (ad0s1).
:-    SCSI disks are named 'da[0-9]'.
:+    and DragonFly is typically installed onto the first free slice
:+    (ad0s1 if disk is empty, ad0s2 if your first slice contains
:+    another OS, etc).   If you have no free slices, either back up,
:...