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From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net>
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In-Reply-To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
       "Re: Proper procedure to partition/label disk now?" (Apr  6, 12:52am)
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> >Well, I mentioned this before and there was silence but I want to rewrite
> >the MBR and bootblocks when 2.1 installs itself so we can fix all the
> >bogus MBR's out there and also update the partition tables to the
> >new standard.
> 
> >There's technically no reason why it can't be done but people do get very 
> >uptight when you mess with these things. 
> 
> The problem is converting backwards (to 1.1.5...) and sideways (to NetBSD
> ...).

Why do we want to do that?  We never claimed we could move backwards to
other OS's.


Nate