On 19 April 2010 02:38, KAYVEN RIESE <ka...@sfsu.edu> wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, Tony Theodore wrote: > >> On 17 April 2010 02:05, <deeptec...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/145735 >>> Something sure stinks here... >> >> I find most installers these days are overly opinionated, gparted (and >> sometimes OSX Disk Utility) are the safest bets - or just give away >> multi-booting and simply run virtual machines. > > I'm remembering now Vista being a culprit last time I was messing with > this.. it kept switching how it is required to do dual boot. My take right > now on "the conspiracy" is that all OS developers, FreeBSD and Microsoft > have increasingly had a sense that there are resources that they need to > dominate, and that this is some sort of design decision, not really having > in mind the whole dual boot concept.
I don't think it's a conspiracy, just a realisation that with limited resources it's impossible to play nicely with the plethora of partitioning schemes - in a way that's seamless to the majority of users who simply install a single OS. It's actually a very sane design decision (if it's that at all). I'd rather FreeBSD developers spent their time on the OS, not on booting scenarios. > All this for me has fallen by the wayside, because I have long since decided > that each OS warrants its very own dedicated hard drive instead of > negotiating with these MBR headaches. Make sure you get a nice static > grounding bracelet. I don't have that many drives :). These days with virtual machines and bootable external drives, it's very rare that I need to multi-boot. I tend to go for extra RAM and faster drives rather than more drives - depends on your use case of course. If I do need to set such things up, dedicated partitioners are much easier than OS installers. Tony _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"