Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 08:52:38 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <oracle@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "leegold" <leegold@erols.com> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Message-ID: <004d01bfc8f7$6ead1f20$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> References: <000501bfc8f4$6dd934b0$cedda4d8@leegold1>
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> are you going to explain boot mangers and multiple boots say ws-dos and > freebsd on the same disk? The history of my stuff might put the thing in perspective. Basically its for me first, then secondly members of Apana (look at the www.apana.org.au for more info), & finally anyone else who can make use of it. As I said somewhere in the early pages my interest in FreeBSD (or anything else for that matter) is getting it working the most straightforward way. I'm not into the needless complication that appears to be part of the unix ethos ...... I've never seen the sense in boot managers / multiple operating systems. There are to my way of thinking other more reliable means of achieving the same results which don't involve all the aggro. (The mailing list archives are full of tales of woe about boot managers). For that matter, even a spare system is well within most people's budget these days. For a start. hard drives are as cheap as chips these days, and those nifty little removable hard drive gadgets are readily available, so why not give each O/S its own drive & avoid all the weird problems that beset boot managers. If you've got more Scottish (or Jewish is probably much the same I guess) ancestry than me, you might even be able to save the expense of the removable thingy, as modern motherboards have BIOS capacity to choose which hard drive boots anyway. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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