I'm not sure if this should be included in the L1 exam or not.
But, can someone please define what you mean by the term "professional
use"? Is this synonymous with servers? But I do see a lot of
consultants using dual-boot machines professionally. I would define
professional use as "onwed by a business or government agency" or
perhaps "used to conduct business". Is that how you would define it?
I see very few people building multiboot servers for professional use.
But, I see a fair number of people building multiboot laptops for
professional use. I see this increasing over time rather than
decreasing. I commonly have people ask me to help them set up multiboot
laptops for prosessional use. In fact, that's probably one of the most
common things I am asked to help someone with.
YMMV
Randy
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From: Patrick Op de Beeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 3:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Chander Kant
Subject: Re: Level 1: Issue 4: Multi-boot? (fwd)
Op dinsdag 20 november 2001 13:42, schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Subject: Issue 4: Multi-boot?
>
> [issue for L1 update, deserves wider discussion, therefore
cross-posted to
> lpi-examdev]
>
> At the time we decided to not require the skill to set up a multi-boot
> system for Level 1 certification. The reason was, that in a
professional
> environment with Linux servers, multi-OS systems would be rare.
Correct. This happens only in amateur systems. Professionals use a
separate
machine (cost of a machine is far less important than the ease of
supporting
a multi-boot machine + license cost of other O.S.)
> This position has been questioned in several comments made in POMS on
the
> relevant objective
> (http://www.lpi.org/cgi-bin/poms.py?objdetail=1.102.2). So I like to
do a
> poll, anyone with an informed opinion please express it:
>
> should there be an objective on creating a multi-OS|multi-boot system?
NO for pro use.
> BTW, is LILO still the preferred and universal boot manager? What
about
> grub? What are distributions currently using?
GRUB is far better than lilo that is due to historic reasons in all
distro
widely used.
Also other O.S. multiboot like OS2 bootmanager is very good.
Patrick Op de Beeck
Sysadmin & technical director Arafox
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