On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Stroller wrote: > > It's enough to make the > > average person's head spin (and does) - it can easily take two > > hours for me to get a class full of reasonably bright Windows > > techies to grasp ... > > You clearly have more experience than I do with teaching novices > about Linux. > > You might ask them to consider - as a teaching aid - the Windows XP > boot.ini file (I believe this is retired in Vista).
Lucky it's something we don't run into too often :-) I eventually figured out that how boot loading works is something most techies don't get into all that often. They understand all the various bits in isolation but when these bits are used together by grub it's ... different ... to normal use of the OS. Much the same as living in Europe and driving on the left, then going to the US and trying to drive on the right. For a few days your driving style is all fingers and thumbs but it settles down after some practice alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
