Subject: Re: Some pre-installation worries
To: Danny Paul <dpaul01@mail.coin.missouri.edu>
From: Space Case <wormey@eskimo.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/20/1998 18:10:45
On Dec 20,  7:17pm, Danny Paul wrote:
>	I just wanted to know what might happen should something go wrong.
>Would it be at all possible for the FS or any of the data on my MacOS
>partition to get destroyed?  I have also heard of the computer getting
>confused and not wanting to boot up at all.  I personally thing that these
>questions are preposterous, but I use this machine for work and my boss
>must be sure that I will have a working machine at all times.

I've been working with NetBSD/mac68k since it was first released as MacBSD,
and have never had it damage any data in my MacOS filesystems or render the
machines unbootable.  I don't recall hearing of any one else having data
damage, and while I think there were a couple of people that had problems
getting their machines to reboot (not fatally, though), that was more a
problem of it carrying through the process rather than data damage.  That
was quite a while ago, too...

~Steve

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