Re: Problems installing on new iBook dual USB

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:24:48AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> ~:^)  One of those little things that just isn't annoying enough is
> that it could so easily supply reasonable defaults without you
> having to do the math yourself all the time, especially the
> "beginning block" argument.  Most people don't use overlapping
> partitions, except in sparc land, and mac-fdisk probably won't let
> you anyway, so what's the dileo?  If it was just a little bit more
> annoying I'd go change it myself.  Time for a nap instead, I think.
> 

There are aliases that you can use for the begining number and length.
The problem is that it doesn't try to tell you about those aliases at
all.  That should be fixed.