Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 16:40:14 -0800 From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why dual boot? Message-ID: <20020126164014.B810@HAL9000.wox.org> In-Reply-To: <y4wuy46bza.uy4@localhost.localdomain>; from swear@blarg.net on Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 01:25:45PM -0800 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$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020126003431.A77505@HAL9000.wox.org> <y4wuy46bza.uy4@localhost.localdomain>
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Thus spake Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net>: > > I'd be great to have an automatic multiple-booterizer, but I think there > are better things to develop, mainly because I think the number of > people who should use it would be small. Few (mostly laptop users) with > M$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$Win when it > happens due to bugs or drained battery or other hardware failure. Multiboot works just fine right now, but it's not going to resize your NTFS partition for you. I previously argued that effort would be better spent fixing other things that can go wrong with the install, but Terry sez resizing NTFS should be easy. > Most of those few who can't use a dedicated disk can at least get a > good taste of FreeBSD by booting off a CDROM into a memory-based > FreeBSD. That experience could be greatly improved if someone would > make one of those systems that puts FreeBSD filesystems into M$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. That would be a neat idea, and it couldn't be hard to implement. After all, we can already create filesystems in memory. Nevertheless, there are too many levels of indirection. It would only be a marketing gimmick, not something suitable for long-term use. At some point, the installer needs to work. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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