Date: 22 Apr 1998 15:41:08 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Carroll Kong <damascus@eden.rutgers.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD and Windows Message-ID: <xzpson60ya3.fsf@grotte.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Carroll Kong's message of "Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:22:54 -0400 (EDT)" References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980422081825.1074B-100000@athena.dorm.rutgers.edu>
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Carroll Kong <damascus@eden.rutgers.edu> writes: > Whoa... totally not true here guys. I am new to the list, but I have Precisely. You are new to the list, and should have read the thread - or at least the message you replied to - with more care before following up. You are wildly off-topic. We are not discussing the feasability of runninge several operating systems on the same machine, but the quality of various multibooters. I have had very negative experiences with System Commander and will *not* recommend it to anybody under any circumstances. There are many alternatives; if we stick to commercial solutions, the OS/2 boot loader (which is also distributed with Partition Magic) is a good one. > On 22 Apr 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > > Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com> writes: > > > I surrendered and spent $50 on a copy of System Commander. I wish I'd > > > bought a copy years ago. It can boot anything from any slice from any > > > disk. Nice. > > No, not nice. It`s a horrible hack and will crash and burn (not to > > mention fsck up your filesystems) if you have anything but the most > > conventional setup, because it makes assumptions about various > > operatings systems that just don`t hold. The Right Way (tm) to do this > > is assume nothing at all and pretend you weren`t there (POLA). -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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