Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 09:39:47 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: 2.2.7 install overwrites bootsect Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980831093706.17306A-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <199808310911.LAA04109@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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> I gave a 2.2.7 dist kit to a (sceptic?) colleague. I was hoping > him coming back as a missionaire. Grrm, he told me, FreeBSD install > had overwritten his bootsector (NT) although he explicitly clicked > the option that was promising to leave the bootsector intact. "clicked" ? :) *giggle* he most probably experianced PEBCAK. i've seen people who were told to try freebsd just breeze through the install not really reading _any_ of the prompts then swear when it misbehaves. i've never had the freebsd util not do what it says it's going to do. Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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