From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 25 15:52:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4820137B416; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:52:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0218.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.218] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16UG9C-0001q8-00; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:52:42 -0800 Message-ID: <3C51EFC6.B1FEEE1E@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:52:38 -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: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org 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> <3C51CD33.4E69B204@mindspring.com> <20020125230455.GA12434@hades.hell.gr> 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 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Ah, my fault Terry. I have -STABLE installed on a spare disk, and I > give that disk away for the `trial period' duration. To those who > borrow it go the words of my previous message. They usually take the > normal disks of their systems out, and boot my -STABLE installation. > Log in as 'guest', password 'guest', and fool around with the machine > all they want. Makes sense, if you are relying on "word of mouth" or "grass roots" to spread the word about FreeBSD. It would be really nice, though, if there were a button on the FreeBSD web site that said "Test drive FreeBSD NOW!", that did everything automatically, without warranty voiding disk-ectomies. The disk lending approach also doesn't work incredibly well on laptops, unfortunately. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message