From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 25 13:21:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA10398 for current-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:21:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA10377 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:21:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.Artisoft.COM by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA13281 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:22:03 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA23307; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 14:03:13 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199611252103.OAA23307@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 14:03:13 -0700 (MST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, current@freefall.freebsd.org, darrylo@sr.hp.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199611250437.UAA01423@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Nov 24, 96 08:37:48 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.