From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 22 04:12:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA18290 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 04:12:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA18284 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:12:32 GMT (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id NAA12220; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:11:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:11:54 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Parag Patel Cc: "Gary Kline" , "Mike Smith" , , , Subject: Re: Free BSD and Windows References: <199804220013.RAA29620@mail2.sirius.com> Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse / KRST / PUMS / YASMW X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 22 Apr 1998 13:11:53 +0200 In-Reply-To: Parag Patel's message of "Tue, 21 Apr 1998 17:14:49 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Parag Patel writes: > On 4/21/98 11:22 AM, Gary Kline (kline@tera.tera.com) said: > > After 5 weeks of trying to dual-boot FBSD and Debian, I > > gave up. Shouldn't be this hard, but is. > 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