Re: Filing Systems was Re: Dual boot

2001-12-28 Thread the hatter
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: > Jesus. Checksumming bad data on disks used to be a copy protection > mechanism way back when I was cracking ST games - mostly byte 32 for > reasons unknown. All you needed was some bit copier like the ones on > Nasty Utils or FastCopy. That's the weird

Re: Filing Systems was Re: Dual boot

2001-12-28 Thread the hatter
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Dean S Wilson wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Sue Spence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Dean S Wilson wrote: > > > Hate to be the one to point this out but if you need functionality > > > like strace then maybe a consumer grade OS isn't right for you... > > > Or any

Re: Dual boot

2001-12-28 Thread anathema
Dean S Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How many people post to Linux groups as root? Every one that hasn't done something majorly disastrous by accident and therefore hasn't learnt the error of their ways? -- http://www.the-anathema.org "Blood-guzzling funereal bonfires? Hardly the best mons

Re: Dual boot

2001-12-28 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:45:41PM -0500, anathema wrote: > Dean S Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >How many people post to Linux groups as root? I think I ran perlbug as root once which then merrily mailed off a root@ email to p5p. root's gecos field was set to something (mildly) embarassing

Re: Filing Systems was Re: Dual boot

2001-12-28 Thread Simon Wistow
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:33:42PM +, the hatter said: > jaguar and missile command, and today I bought a second jaguar (for 10ukp, > rather than 8ukp for just a second controller, which I wanted) and a > couple more games. R.I.P Atari, I will think of you every time I look > towards sunnydal

Dual boot linux/2000 (+under vmware?)

2001-12-28 Thread Paul Makepeace
Seems like there's some Windows knowledge here :-) Basically I'd like to dual-boot Linux & Windows 2000 on the same box. Previously I was using NT's standard boot.ini-driven boot loader but that was on a disk I don't have any more and the current one I'm using (where in fact the NT partition is)