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Date:      Tue, 19 Dec 1995 22:01:15 +0100 (MET)
From:      Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de>
To:        andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot floppy, missing "install bootmanager"-only submenu
Message-ID:  <199512192101.WAA01389@mordillo>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951212221904.215A-100000@knobel.gun.de> from "Andreas Klemm" at Dec 12, 95 10:27:20 pm

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hasn't Andreas Klemm said ? ...
> 
> Hi Jordan !
> 
> We spoke about that some weeks ago. You said weeks ago on IRC,
> that you'd implemented me idea, to offer a "write bootmanager"-
> only menue point on the boot floppy just for the case, that 
> Windows95 or Windows NT nuked your main boot sector during 
> installation.
> 
> Now I got the new 2.1 installation floppy via ftp and I saw nothing at
> all on the top menues.
> 
> The only thing I saw was the menue about installing or not installing
> the boot manager after leaving the partitioning menu ...
> But it doesn't seem to write it immediately ...
> 
> What I wanted was a simple menue, to "refresh/reinstall" the 
> bootmanager. It should be accessable in the toplevelmenue ...
> 
> What about it ?! You said, it would be there on the 2.1 floppy, 
> I didn't find it ?!  Am I getting old ? ;-)
> 
what about:

  dd if=bteasy17 of=/dev/yourdrive bs=446 count=1

this way it worked often for me - bteasy17 is uuencoded in
/usr/src/release/sysinstall

t
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