On 23/10/99 Jeramy B Smith wrote:
I'm not under the opinion that all software should be free, BUT I was also dismayed that I needed a MacOS partition to boot my beige g3 desktop.
partly its non free, mostly because its a big waste of space for a useless OS I have no interest in using. besides Debian having a dependency on macos must violate the DFSG :-)
The way I've come to look at it is, I have a 100 meg bootloader partition (FAT, Windows95, LoadLin) on my hard disk. Unlike lilo, I have full gui, self-diagnostic tools (ScanDisk), and even a Java capable web browser in my boot loader. Not only that, my bootloader can contain an entire live-filesystem. Kind of makes silo, milo, and lilo look bad. Windows95: the most robust bootloader for Linux. :-D
The way I've come to look at it is, I have a 100 meg bootloader partition (HFS, MacOS, BootX) on my hard disk. Unlike lilo, I have full gui, self-diagnostic tools (disk first aid), and even a Java capable web browser in my boot loader. Not only that, my bootloader can contain an entire live-filesystem. Kind of makes silo, milo, and lilo look bad. MacOS: the most robust bootloader for Linux. I think this is the most optimistic way to look at big booting kludge. And my tongue was firmly embedded in cheek while writing.
I hope so :-) I prefer lightweight bootloaders personally. Best Regards, Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/
