LPI Folk,
I think the VMware topic is tangential, and that Peter Albrecht was correct in the first instance: multi-boot systems are not common in corporate server environments, at any rate. As desktops/development systems...becoming somewhat more common, I guess. I do see a lot of VMWare in that role, however. As regards the "boot DOS/Windows" to configure hardware IRQs or whatnot, that seems pretty out of date. I would not keep a DOS/Windows installation on any modern system for this purpose. More generally, given the alternatives in the market, I would no longer deploy, for use with Linux, hardware that requires DOS/Windows configuration. Matt Benjamin The Linux Box 206 South Fifth Ave. Suite 150 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 tel. 734-761-4689 fax. 734-769-8938 pgr. 734-431-0118 On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Mark Lachniet wrote: > Peter Albrecht wrote: > > >I think multi-boot system should _not_ be in the exam. As Tom wrote, in a > >professional environment (and that's what we are talking about) it will be a > >very rare exception. I would then prefer using VMware instead of rebooting the > >machine. > > > On the other hand - would there be any instances, for example in an > enterprise application, where it is necessary to boot to a Windows OS to > perform management functions? For example, configuring a RAID array or > SAN adapter? How about resizing EXT2 partitions with Partition magic, etc.? > > Also, In the past, I know that in order to correctly configure some > hardware, it was necessary to boot to a DOS/Windows environment, run a > config program to do things like set an IRQ, and then run LOADLIN to > boot the Linux OS. > -- This message was sent from the lpi-examdev mailing list. Send `unsubscribe lpi-examdev' in the subject to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to leave the list.
