From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Subhash Bhushan" Subject: Re: multiple OSs Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 02:20:09 +0000 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: twhite@aniota.com Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org :) First of all, thanks all of you for your input. I was basically asking for intricacies like overwriting of MBR by any other OS other than Windows (Novell, for ex). By "Ease of Maintenance", I meant that if any OS or the boot loader itself, were to get corrupted, would it be easy to get it back? And thanks Mr.Terry White, those were some valuable input. I am an ardent linux forever, for its GPL. I use RH too, but I am saddened by the fact that from RH 9 onwards, its not going to come free anymore. Well, they had to make some money somewhere. So, I guess I will be going towards slackware. And as for the fact of using multiple OSs, it eliminates the pain of reinstalling the system, when I need to test my "guinea pig" OSs, mainly freebsd and linux, from other OSs. So, I am looking towards diversity. And I am installing windows only for namesake, nothing else. Maybe I wont even do that. :) Thanks again all for the valuable input, Subhash. _________________________________________________________________ Hot picks. Free downloads. http://www.msn.co.in/musicnew/musicshop Visit music shop