I asked the following question, just thinking one night about how I honestly would not rely on MS systems if given the choice.
Here is the question:
You are stranded on an island. There is one machine there with a
connection, satellite wireless, and it is a Windows machine. For some
strange reason, if you reboot, you will lose the connection. But you have
to reboot, at least you are ASSUMING IT WILL HELP, because when you
attempt to load any application, EXCEPT FTP,
the machine refuses to start the application.
What do you do you do?
And here was my favorite answer:
c:\ ftp ftp.freebsd.org
prompt
mget floppies/*flp
mget tools/rawrite.exe
mget tools/bootmgr.exe
reboot
partition c:\ with Windows2000 drive mgr. 1.44mb part
make that y:\
ibid
make that z:\
reboot
c:\rawrite kern.flp y:\
c:\rawrite mfsroot.flp z:\
c:\bootmgr
Write BSD bootmgr to MBR? y
reboot
FreedBSD boot prompt
? boot asd1a
which slice is file system?
? asd2a
Booting FreeBSD kernel.....
Install over the wireless connection. Never worry about such bullshit
again.
