I am actually glad that I do not have any dual boot issues. Some time ago (2 years back when I tried mandrake 6.0 and win98 on one machine), at some point similar thing happened to me, I don't really remember the circumstances, but a project that I was working on for days was trashed (win) and my email repository went down to tubes as well (lnx). I decided that to have a dual boot is generally a bad idea and when I'll be ready ... Took me a while, my boxen multiplied, so last summer I decided to dedicate one to linux. After a while, I realized that there is really any good reason why the other box has to be stuffed with a crappy os that crashes at least 6 times a day (w2k, way more stable than 98 that crashed about thrice as often). I have vmware on one of the boxen with w2k and surprisingly, when I use it the crash ratio is almost to zero. It is though, easy to reboot, it takes about 15 seconds to get to the login and I am already tapping nervously on the desk.
Actually, lately it has been used quite infrequently, only to check some layouts in MSIE, which can be considered unfortunate but necessary due to its epidemic spread.
My third box is a server with no GUI, only commandline, but controlled remotely from LAN with a webmin like interface.
One day, the w2k running under vmware will be gone, perhaps in not too distant future. Good riddance, I'd say.
I am not sure what I am trying to say... maybe it is too late.
Maybe one thing... If one compares linux and winblows, linux has a tremendous depth, but somehow, it is not like an abyss, more like when one looks into starry blackness and feels one with the universe. Winblows seems to be skin deep, albeit one assumes a depth too, there must be. There is, a deep well, but it is full of horseshit.
I would not allow winblows to be an OS that is responsible for running my box, any of them.
[ February 09, 2002: Message edited by: lu666s ]
