Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 18:34:13 -0400 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: erich@compecon.com, kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.7 install impertinently overwrites boot Message-ID: <4.1.0.67.19981009183317.00a5dd40@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <361E69C7.E80D8F20@peregrine.com>
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Last version of 3.0-Current I did doesn't do it. I'd think they'd use the same installer for both, but who knows. Bottom line is, I'd just install 3.0-BETA (Release comes out on the 15th I think), and call it good enough ;-) At 12:53 PM 10/9/98 -0700, Eric Hedstrom wrote: >Christoph Kukulies wrote: > >>I installed 2.2.7 on my notebook from a floppy/DOS partition. >>I explicitly hit the space bar so that the [*] appeared in the >>selection 'leave bootsector untouched' and the damned beast >>overwrote my bootinst multiboot which was already sitting there. > >Guess what? This just happened to me on Wednesday using a 2.2.6-RELEASE >boot disk to do a net install of 2.2.7-RELEASE from ftp.freebsd.org, too. > >For what it's worth. > >Eric Hedstrom >erich@compecon.com > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange 207-942-0275 http://www.droo.orland.me.us To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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