From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 26 13:23: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A0D937B449 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 13:22:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E774BD24; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 13:22:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00435; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 13:22:36 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0QLPkO06814; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 13:25:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: David Schultz 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> <001b01c1a635$636a4170$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020126003431.A77505@HAL9000.wox.org> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 26 Jan 2002 13:25:45 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020126003431.A77505@HAL9000.wox.org> Message-ID: Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'd be great to have an automatic multiple-booterizer, but I think there are better things to develop, mainly because I think the number of people who should use it would be small. Few (mostly laptop users) with M$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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message