From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 22 06:41:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA11443 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 06:41:20 -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 NAA11436 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:41:14 GMT (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from grotte.ifi.uio.no (2602@grotte.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.60]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id PAA08704; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 15:41:09 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by grotte.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 15:41:08 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Carroll Kong Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD and Windows References: 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 15:41:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: Carroll Kong's message of "Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:22:54 -0400 (EDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 27 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id NAA11439 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Carroll Kong 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 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