At 04:29 PM 2/4/00 +1030, Brett Lymn wrote:
>According to Paul Hoffman:
> >
> >Why didn't the first installs overwrite LILO or what was left of it after
> >"lilo -u"?
>
>Because, unlike some commercial pseudo-OS's we could name, NetBSD does
>not assume that it is the only thing installed on the box.  In this
>context, byte blasting a previous boot manager is rude.

This is exactly my point. In the installation, I told the installer "this 
is the only OS on the disk". Therefore, I would have hoped that it would 
use that knowledge and choose to do a 'fdisk -i <thisdisk>', but it didn't.

I'm not advocating that we always wipe out LILO, but if the user says "the 
disk is yours", and we know that LILO won't be able to do anything useful 
after that point, I think the NetBSD installer should make the hard disk 
bootable into NetBSD.