Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 12:16:17 +1200 From: Joerg Micheel <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: the new config and booting Message-ID: <19990513121617.B25283@cs.waikato.ac.nz> In-Reply-To: <199905130006.RAA02337@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Wed, May 12, 1999 at 05:06:03PM -0700 References: <19990512165906.57576@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> <199905130006.RAA02337@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike, On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 05:06:03PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > well, I wonder if other people have noticed this also, but if you don't > > have a previous boot loader installed (like windows/dos) the ONLY way > > to install onto a machine is TO use a dangerously dedicated mode... > > This is quite untrue. I do a lot of installs to virgin systems on a > wide range of hardware, and I haven't encountered any situations where > DD has been necessary in a long time. OTOH, I have met many where DD > would be fatal. Virgin systems is not virgin disks. If you buy a complete PC, this bootloader from Redmonton is already on the disk. I had similiar problems a while back and unless someone has explicitely looked after this, it still persits. Just my 2 Pfennige, Joerg -- Joerg B. Micheel Email: <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz> Waikato Applied Network Dynamics Phone: +64 7 8384794 The University of Waikato, SCMS Fax: +64 7 8384155 Private Bag 3105 Pager: +64 868 38222 Hamilton, New Zealand Plan: TINE and the DAG's To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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