From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 25 5:17:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nic.upatras.gr (nic.upatras.gr [150.140.129.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C376D37B400 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 05:17:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 18197 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2002 13:13:55 -0000 Received: from dialup3-ceid-dialinpool-13.upatras.gr (HELO hades.hell.gr) (root@150.140.128.205) by nic.upatras.gr with SMTP; 25 Jan 2002 13:13:55 -0000 Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0PDH1H07448; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:17:01 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:16:59 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Brett Glass Cc: chip , Terry Lambert , David Schultz , "f.johan.beisser" , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual booting (Was: FreeBSD Installer) Message-ID: <20020125131659.GB7374@hades.hell.gr> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020124213809.00e6e5d0@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i 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 2002-01-24 21:40:17, Brett Glass wrote: > At 07:21 AM 1/24/2002, chip wrote: > > >I think I'll do a dual-boot setup just for the experience. > > 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. > > Friends don't let friends dual-boot. True, I don't let my friends dual boot. The best argument I've come up with so far is: "There is no way you'll spend the time figuring out why you can't connect to your PPP dialup server, if you have the option of rebooting and working on that other OS. Humans are weak, at the first difficulty you'll throw it all away, and run back to your current pet OS." -- Giorgos Keramidas . . . . . . . . . keramida@{ceid.upatras.gr,freebsd.org} FreeBSD Documentation Project . . . http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ FreeBSD: The power to serve . . . . http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message