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Re: NT floppy driver makes risky assumptions

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mathijs Brands)
Thu Sep 17 13:43:48 1998

Date: 	Thu, 17 Sep 1998 19:04:22 +0200
Reply-To: Mathijs Brands <shrike@CHARM.IL.FONTYS.NL>
From: Mathijs Brands <shrike@CHARM.IL.FONTYS.NL>
X-To:         JAPH David Nicol <david@KASEY.UMKC.EDU>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  <360022E8.72ECD937@kasey.umkc.edu>

On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, JAPH David Nicol wrote:

> Got an NT 4.0 machine and if you stick a "red hat rescue.img" floppy
> in the floppy slot you get an instant blue screen.

Just tested on two different WinNT 4.0 Workstation machines. Both have
service-pack 3 applied and both didn't flinch when I presented them with
the Redhat 5.1 rescue-disk.

Mathijs

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