From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 25 1:30:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 551A937B404 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 01:30:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0P9ULp73925; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 01:30:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 01:30:21 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" X-X-Sender: jan@localhost To: Brett Glass Cc: chip , Terry Lambert , David Schultz , Subject: Re: Dual booting (Was: FreeBSD Installer) In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020124213809.00e6e5d0@localhost> Message-ID: <20020125012049.D32624-100000@localhost> X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you X-TO-THE-FBI-CIA-AND-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Brett Glass wrote: > I have a friend in New York City who told me that very thing > two years ago. (He was learning UNIX at the time.) To this > day, he has NEVER been able to set up a trouble-free system, > and has wasted countless days struggling with his machines. i think each system is *just* unique enough to create a new set of issues (such as a RAID card not working under one OS, that supported in the generic kernel of another). i have to say, i've rarely had to fight with most of the BSDs, while i've had all kinds of issues with Linux and Windows. on the other hand, i've had to fight with -CURRENT more often than i care to admit. > Friends don't let friends dual-boot. i tend to make dual-booting win2k and FreeBSD laptops. for desktops, i prefer to have single use machines (at work, i have a FreeBSD workstation, that's it). The laptops are rarely a fight, when it is one, it's normally something stupid like X or a graphical card. so far, -CURRENT is working like a charm on this laptop (Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600). No complaints, once X was working. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message