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At 04:20 AM 1/26/2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
>[Norton Ghost] is great if you are installing a system for the
>first time at a factory, or mass producing desktop setups
>in an IT department at a company, but much less great if
>what you are doing is recovering from a trashed Windows
>system file, and don't want to trash the data on your
>Windows partition (e.g. .DOC files you created after you
>bought the machine, before you broke it), and incredibly
>less great if you've already repartitioned and installed
>FreeBSD or Linux, and have data there, as well.

Yeah, one of the lessons I learned the hard way since I've started 
multi-booting is that I should not bother configuring any OS/applications 
until I'm sure that all the OSes in question will boot properly.

--Chip Morton


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