Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 14:03:13 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, current@freefall.freebsd.org, darrylo@sr.hp.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure Message-ID: <199611252103.OAA23307@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199611250437.UAA01423@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Nov 24, 96 08:37:48 pm
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> I think the rational Microsoft gave me was something like ``Well, this > is a PnP OS, and that means it is suppose to automatically set up things > for you. If it didn't do this then the user would have to manually fdisk > and format the partition.'' I responeded with a ``well, at least you should > ask the user before making such an assumption about the contents of the > MBR.'' This may have been their rationale. However their reason was entirely cosmetic. Old boot blocks: Booting MS-DOS... New boot blocks: Booting Windows... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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