From: Rick Moen (rick at domain linuxmafia.com)
Date: Tue 05 Jun 2001 - 16:06:48 IST
David, thank you. It's morning for me (here in the California
wasteland) and I'm rushed for time getting to work, so I lacked the
time, patience, and inclination to rewrite essays for people. In as
much as this is not Short Attention Span Theatre.
> Having skimmed it, it seemed to boil down to:
> 1) Most partitioning software advises you to back your machine up
> before using it. If you're taking a backup, why not repartition
> destructively with the bundled partitioning tools?
/s/most/all/
Why not repartition with the native, most-reliable tools? Having
insisted on making reliable backups, _rely_ on them. A crossover cable,
a second knockaround box, and a copy of rsync can suffice.
> 2) Why dual boot, when you can just buy another machine?
/s/buy/scrounge/
Of course, more fruitful in some places than others. This may be the
Silicon Valley desert, but at least it's crawling with computer
hardware.
-- Cheers, "Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when they have Rick Moen computers is like being afraid of really big gorillas especially rick at domain linuxmafia.com when they're on fire." -- Bruce Sterling, 01994-03-26
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