> Now I'm seeing new PCs with. > 1) Primary partition for the M$ equivalent of /boot > 2) Primary partition with the main M$ install > 3) Primary partition with the recovery bits. > > Install Linux and that 4th primary partition becomes the > extended > partition. No place for OpenBSD.
You can actually have MANY more than 4 OS on one drive, but it does get rather complicated and not worth the effort which certainly wouldn't help here. ========================================================================= >Your analogy doesn't go far enough. Better: guests in a home being >asked for contributions and also being insulted, both by the hosts. Guess it depends on your recent culture, I can recall many times when me and my mates would insult each other and put money on the table for pizza, though I've never asked them to pay for something I've cooked but If I had a house full of strangers who could cook what they wanted, I wouldn't last long footing the bill by myself and you wouldn't blame a chef for the unruly customers but you could always come back later, ignore them or go to another room. Of course if a stranger insulted me "without cause". I'd probably try to make him hit me, so I could hit him back ;-) I guess you saw an opportunity to get something off your chest but I know you know OpenBSD is more secure, stable and has a lower cost of ownership than Slackware, (if you knew how to get it to do what you need with your Database) and certainly deserves your support. I doubt you would have used it in the first place if you didn't realise these things.
