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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: wd driver questions
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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