On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 08:15:19AM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> 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.

This also assume you don't have other bootable disks in your machine.
Some boot manager can boot a another disk (I believe the NetBSD one can
do this).
In this context, even if there's only NetBSD on *this* disk, it's not always
appropriate to overwrite the boot code.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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