[Unattended] Why do we do the whole edd-writing thing?!

Hi
I have another methode to deal with the edd-sata problem.. I still use
edd to determine the number of heads, but I modify windows after the 
installation..

Basically, I change the 26. byte ("Number of Heads") of the install
partition and the same byte of /mnt/sda1/$win_nt$.~bt/bootsect.dat to
its "true" value. After that, the setup can finish properly.. :-)

I set 0xf0 (240d) for thinkpads and 0xff (255d) for the other systems.
(based on the information from edd)

I use dd with its notrunc option to modify this "files".

eg. echo -e -n "\xff" |dd of=/dev/sda1 bs=1 seek=26 conv=notrunc
eg. echo -e -n "\xff" |dd of=/mnt/sda1/\$win_nt\$.~bt/bootsect.dat \
bs=1 seek=26 conv=notrunc

It is easy to handle and I encounterd no "strange exceptions" so far..

Any feedback would be appreciated..

cheers christian



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