Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Merciadri Luca <
Luca.Merciadri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mark wrote:

Yes, but you said this wasn't for beginners in your original post so
if a non-beginner can't get the Bootable Flag set up on the right
partition to boot, they are not a non-beginner...so this point
probably doesn't apply.

Okay. But why allowing something that has no interest to be done, to be
done, be it by a beginner or not?


Good point. Maybe the code didn't fit into the Debian Installer to
determine which partitions to allow the user to make bootable? Your guess
is as good as mine.

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