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Date:	Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:30:44 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: sysinstx ?

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Peter Skye wrote:
>
> SYS.COM didn't transfer the Master Boot Record (MBR)
> and you needed to use FORMAT if you wanted an MBR.

I may have blown it on the above. It would make no sense for SYS.COM to
_not_ write an MBR. I just tried to look inside SYS.COM (MS-DOS 6.22)
to see if there was any in-line documentation but the top of the program
says "PKLITE Copr. 1992 PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved" and there's not
much else readable so it might be a compressed executable (LXLITE) or
something. (And I don't know how to uncompress an LXLITE executable for
viewing.)

Anyway, SYS.COM might write the MBR in which case SYSINSTX probably also
writes the MBR. And if that's the case then SYSINSTX might mess up your
boot loader (any flavor including the one that comes with LVM) or your
MaxDrive (or whatever Maxtor called it) or anything else that puts
itself on the very first cylinder of your first disk.

The triumvirate of SYSINSTX, boot loader compatibilities and LVM are
severely straining my noggin's quest to understand them. Comments more
intelligent than mine would be GREATLY appreciated.

- Peter

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