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Date:      26 Jan 2002 13:25:45 -0800
From:      swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why dual boot?
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I'd be great to have an automatic multiple-booterizer, but I think there
are better things to develop, mainly because I think the number of
people who should use it would be small.  Few (mostly laptop users) with
M$Win installed can't easily buy a cheap, small, even used, second disk
for a dedicated FreeBSD install.  Few of them should risk loosing their
M$Win when moving it around on the disk.  Very few of them would be
willing to back up or able to restore their M$Win.  Even those who ARE
willing will spread the news that FreeBSD blew out their M$Win when it
happens due to bugs or drained battery or other hardware failure.

Most of those few who can't use a dedicated disk can at least get a
good taste of FreeBSD by booting off a CDROM into a memory-based
FreeBSD.  That experience could be greatly improved if someone would
make one of those systems that puts FreeBSD filesystems into M$Win files
(which has likely already been done), esp. if they could write some
M$Win code to pre-size the fs files and run the defragger before making
the FS in the file during the FreeBSD install.

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