Subject: Re: sysinst, two more notes
To: Robert V. Baron <rvb@cs.cmu.edu>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: current-users
Date: 02/17/1999 07:51:21
On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 07:05:14PM -0500, Robert V. Baron wrote:
> Wolfgang Solfrank <ws@tools.de> writes:
> > 
> > Offering an option to the user to overwrite the mbr code probably does
> > make the most sense here.
> 
> Actually, if we find that there is only one BIOS partition on the
> machine that takes up the whole disk, it would make sense to install
> the NetBSD mbr code whether there is an existing one there or not.

Or have an option "Do you want to keep the old mbr code (y/N)?"
(to overwrite it by default).

  -jm