Artur Grabowski wrote:
> Dual boot is for sissies who can't get a second machine.
Steve Shockley wrote:
| No, dual boot is for sissies who can't commit to a real OS.
Or for people who like dual-booting OpenBSD and OpenBSD, i.e. having
multiple bootable versions of OpenBSD on a machine.
When I install a new machine I always set it up for dual-booting this
way. Then when the next May/November rolls around and it's time to
upgrade/reinstall, I dump|restore the working install to the other set
of partitions, check that that boots and works ok, and *then* proceed
with the upgrade/reinstall on the original partitions. This way I still
have a working computer if something goes wrong in the upgrade/reinstall.
This saved my neck a couple of years ago when we went from XFree86
(which was fine on the laptop I had then) to X.org (which turnd out
not to grok the video chipset). I wound up staying at the last XFree86
-stable relase for another year, until my employer bought a new batch
of laptops...
ciao,
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