Bug#56821: [POSSIBLE GRAVE SECURITY HOLD]
- To: quinot@infres.enst.fr
- Cc: Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr>, Samuel Tardieu <sam@debian.org>, Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>, "Huneycutt, Doug" <doug.huneycutt@lmco.com>, 56821@bugs.debian.org, pb@enst.fr, quinot@enst.fr, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#56821: [POSSIBLE GRAVE SECURITY HOLD]
- From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
- Date: 02 Feb 2000 17:53:39 -0600
- Message-id: <[🔎] 874sbrjh4s.fsf@erwin.complete.org>
- Reply-to: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>, 56821@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: Thomas Quinot's message of "Thu, 3 Feb 2000 00:50:04 +0100"
- References: <[🔎] 2000-02-02-11-38-12+trackit+sam@debian.org> <[🔎] 87vh47k3v1.fsf@erwin.complete.org> <[🔎] 20000202175255.E50448@enst.fr> <[🔎] 873drby1na.fsf@erwin.complete.org> <[🔎] 20000202181855.H50448@enst.fr> <[🔎] 87n1pjy0qs.fsf@erwin.complete.org> <[🔎] 20000202184944.K50448@enst.fr> <[🔎] 87ya93h467.fsf@erwin.complete.org> <[🔎] 20000202181713.A6159@brown.edu> <[🔎] 20000203005004.C2812@lantier.enst.fr>
Then what are you complaining about? It's been there for years.
Thomas Quinot <quinot@email.enst.fr> writes:
> Le 2000-02-03, Daniel Burrows écrivait :
>
> > people should read the documentation for the system, but there's no indication
> > that mbr is part of the system! If you don't know something exists, you're
> > unlikely to read its documentation..
> >
> > Anyway, all that's needed is a mention of the fact that a special boot sector
> > is used for Debian, *somewhere* in the install.
>
> This is precisely our point.
> Thomas.
>
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