Re: [Cooker] DANGER: WinME update may trash all non-Windows partitions

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

>>>>> "D" == David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    D> Gary, Windows has a long history of taking over a machine
    D> during installs and such.

That much I'd known: Win95's install, unlike all other MsDOS software,
took the first _partition_ (rather than the first _dos_ partition) to
be drive C.  That got me this time is that it was a stupid _update_
that had no business messing with the partitions.

When we first booted the Mandrake 8.0b install and found the question
"Windows partition detected.  Remove it?" as the first option, both
my brother and I cheered ;)


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