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Date:      Wed, 12 May 1999 19:23:39 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        Joerg Micheel <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: the new config and booting
Message-ID:  <19990512192339.E21989@futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990513121617.B25283@cs.waikato.ac.nz>; from Joerg Micheel on Thu, May 13, 1999 at 12:16:17PM %2B1200
References:  <19990512165906.57576@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> <199905130006.RAA02337@dingo.cdrom.com> <19990513121617.B25283@cs.waikato.ac.nz>

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On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 12:16:17PM +1200, a little birdie told me
that Joerg Micheel remarked
> 
> 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.

I just last night did a full install onto a set of fresh virgin disks in
a fresh virgin system (all bought component-at-a-time) without using DD.



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