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
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