On 3/27/22, Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, you are. Just not in the normal way.
On 3/27/22, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Debian Live /is/ a dual boot -- unless the computer in question > has no operating system to begin with :-) > > I think there is some misunderstanding on how songbird and you > think of "dual boot". To me "dual booting" had always meant: repartitioning drives; an actual Linux installation; messing with Windows fschk; with the GRUB loader; choosing which OS do I want to use during start up; ... What I have been doing is occasionally using a DL DVD and an external USB player to temporarily use pretty much any bootable device with a USB port. I have successfully booted even very old "for parts" mac airbooks without a hard drive in that way just fine, which has truly amazed me. > As I already said, I think a live system shouldn't /set/ the > hwclock ... the hardware and/or firmware of the host system at all. Period! To me that is the whole purpose of using live systems, no?: "let me just borrow the RAM and the CPU, its buses and IO connectors ... for a while". I find honorable that kind of "do no harm" Hippocratic oath/paradigm, which includes as part of a corollary: "don't you ever think, talk or walk like a politician". > AFAIK there is one mailing list dedicated to debian live. Perhaps > you're luckier there. I will try "to talk sense into them", but since the DL is the same as the install system there might be some sort of "implementation issues" blocking the possibility of an easy solution to that problem. I think at the very least DL should include a utility to reset the system time in whichever way user wants or actually ask the user if she is OK with having DL alter the system clock "because" "Windows developers are hopelessly idiotic morons who haven't figured out yet if the sun rises from the East or from the West" ... lbrtchx
