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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: wd driver questions
To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
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In-Reply-To: <199703200146.SAA00999@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Mar 19, 97 06:46:35 pm
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> > > 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.

You misunderstand:

	"Tell human to override the virus protection",

NOT

	"code software to override the virus protection"


					Regards,
					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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