From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 25 14:46:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C279037B400 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:46:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0218.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.218] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16UF6j-0000Rn-00; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:46:06 -0800 Message-ID: <3C51E02A.14291AE5@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:46:02 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Technical Information Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Why dual boot? References: <3C4FBE5C.2AE8C65@mindspring.com> <20020123114658.A514@lpt.ens.fr> <20020123223104.SM01952@there> <3C4FBE5C.2AE8C65@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020124213809.00e6e5d0@localhost> <20020125131659.GB7374@hades.hell.gr> <4.3.2.7.2.20020125170720.01922970@threespace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Technical Information wrote: > At 04:25 PM 1/25/2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > >Requiring Windows XP to include a repartitioning facility; > >they already have the defragger code, and the partitioning > >code (the former is there in the disk properties, the latter > >in the installation) to take the fear out of it. > > Then you'd have companies like PowerQuest crying foul when they couldn't > sell you Partition Magic 7.0 for $70 a pop. Not if they licensed it for every copy of Windows sold... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message