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Date:      Wed, 19 Mar 1997 18:46:35 -0700 (MST)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith), hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: wd driver questions
Message-ID:  <199703200146.SAA00999@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199703192035.NAA12366@phaeton.artisoft.com>
References:  <199703190049.LAA20233@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <199703192035.NAA12366@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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Terry Lambert writes:
> > There are?  We haven't yet established where "the front of the disk"
> > is yet.  It's not safe (or reliable) to try to rewrite the MBR (virus
> > protection), or the slack space following (some other systems put
> > bootstraps there).  Then the next cylinder might be a partition.
> 
> Override the virus protection.

It's not possible to do inside the install program.


Nate



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