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g designed.=A0<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">2010/9/5 Eric Kohl <span d=
ir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:eric.kohl at t-online.de">eric.kohl at t-online.=
de</a>&gt;</span><br>
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Hi!<br>
<br>
Being cooperative was my intention when I wrote this part of usetup. The ba=
d thing about this approach is that usetup needs to deal with all kinds of =
different situations that developers cannot even think about. The only prop=
er way to fix this situation was: &quot;Don&#39;t touch it if you don&#39;t=
 know how to deal with it!&quot; The result was that usetup could only hand=
le empty harddisks and Windows boot managers correctly. Except for these tw=
o cases there are lots of different situations that a setup application can=
not deal with. That&#39;s where the user must fix things. That&#39;s why us=
etup enables users to save the bootsector to a floppy disk. =A0This enables=
 them to fix the unknown situations themselves. Unfortunately this means th=
at newbies might not be able to install the bootcode properly. But I though=
t it was better not to overwrite a bootsector that to unintentionally damag=
e a system.<br>

<br>
The question how to handle this correctly is a difficult one. Microsoft cho=
se the easy way as they behave like they are the owner of the system and ov=
erwrite everything as they see fit. But implementing this part of the setup=
 in a way that fits everyones needs is a very difficult task. Just think ab=
out the different filesystems and different versions of LILO and GRUB and w=
hat about other third-party boot-managers...<br>

<br>
Regards,<br>
Eric<br>
<br>
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