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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!bowl.news.pipex.net!pipex!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!feed1.news.innet.be!INbe.net!feed2.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news-ge.switch.ch!news-fra1.dfn.de!news.apfel.de!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.gsl.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!csulb.edu!data.ramona.vix.com!nnrp1.crl.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Good GOD, I'm ****ed! Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 02:38:21 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3367130D.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <01bc53e7$d0302c20$e5180ed0@default> <3365A24C.237C228A@FreeBSD.org> <5k646r$jm4$1@otis.netspace.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: Mark Heath <mheath@netspace.net.au> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40090 Mark Heath wrote: > > Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > > : Perhaps Windows 95 has some sort of "auto MBR migration" feature in > : which it explicitly copies such date over without asking you, but I > : seriously doubt it. Even the boys in Redmond rarely screw the pooch > : with that much enthusiasm. > > I wouldn't be too sure. I was Installing 95 on my home machine which > already had linux on it and LILO on the MBR and LILO silently dissapeared > without a prompt or a dialog from the Gates. That's actually a well-known pathology. Yes, Win95 will definitely *stomp* your existing MBR without ever asking, but migrate one? That'd be a new one. :) -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.