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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:699 comp.os.386bsd.misc:772 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!ksmith!keith From: keith@ksmith.com (Keith Smith) Subject: Re: Why use linux was Re: Why would I want LINUX? Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 00:58:21 GMT Message-ID: <1993Aug26.005821.26078@ksmith.com> References: <24vd7h$frk@horus.mch.sni.de> <258gu6INNlef@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <1993Aug23.124406.856@finbol.toppoint.de> Lines: 18 In article <1993Aug23.124406.856@finbol.toppoint.de> jschief@finbol.toppoint.de writes: >j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch) writes: >>off-the-standard booting scheme (LILO). With *BSD using a normal dozz >lilo works for me and most other, and there may come the time >that dos boot schemes are obsolent.( boot from first HD smaler 1GB) I have found booting to be annoying on _ALL_ IBM-PC based hardware. My old Heath H-8 had software that would allow me to boot at will from _ANY_ disk partition (And it supported like up to 256), as well as from floppy. The H-120 used to come up and give you "The Finger" and allow you to boot either DOS(86) or CP/M-85 from the finger prompt. My first thought on an AT was "But what if I want to boot something besides DOS?" Oh, I get to jump thru hoops, nice. -- Keith Smith keith@ksmith.com 5719 Archer Rd. Digital Designs BBS 1-919-423-4216 Hope Mills, NC 28348-2201 Somewhere in the Styx of North Carolina ...