bug in install?

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From: Marc Plumb
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1989 08:03

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I did a little experimentation, and it seems that install forces the first
longword of block 0 to 'DOS\0' and the third to 880 (the root block #).
This seems like a bug, since it would do bad things to FFS ('DOS\1')
floppies, or anything that uses the third longword for dos-specific
data like it's supposed to be available for.

Questions:
1) Is this a bug?
2) Will it get fixed (the proper behaviour is to leave those two words
   alone) when FFS for floppies and things rolls around?
3) In the meantime, is there some kludge that could be used to stop
   this, or should  Irecognise my disks some other way.  Looking at the
   first longword is the "right" way, but there are plenty of others...
-- 
	-Colin Plumb

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!telly!ziebmef!mcp
From: mcp@ziebmef.uucp (Marc Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: bug in install?
Message-ID: <1989Jun17.040402.15982@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 17 Jun 89 08:03:59 GMT
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