Linux/open software (was Bill Gates writes...)

John K. Taber jktaber at onramp.net
Fri Aug 7 15:02:28 PDT 1998


Les Schaffer wrote: [snip]
> finally, a note to max swicky and like-minded folks: one nice thing
> about an alternate OS install is the support for multiple OS's on a
> system. It is very """""easy""""" (is that enough quotes?) to boot to
> either Windows or Linux once the initial boot phase is complete. This
> gives you the best of both worlds, and i can not tell you how many
> times i have fixed a windows install by booting to Linux, mounting the
> windows partitions, and fixing some uSoft silliness.

I heard that Windows 98 sabotages Linux's dual boot. It seems that Windows 98 moves disk records around that Linux depends on to dual boot.

I don't know for a fact yet if the above is true.


> This is Propeller-Head 1 signing off for the day (post 3).

Propeller-Head 2, 1st post, you have been warned.



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