On Sun 04 Feb 01, 10:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>
> > i want to report on a lert call i went to today to vox-tech.
> >
> > the task was to rescue a dual boot install which went sour. the person used
> > fdisk to split up the windows partition. needless to say, the partitions
> > weren't salvagable.
>
> I have never had this happen (in my "several" not "dozens" of times using
> FIPS). Perhaps they used the old FIPs... that isn't designed for FAT32
> partitions.
who said anything about fips? :) it wasn't a typo! that's why i said
it was toast! :-)
> For that matter, I think dual-booting is a band-aid. Two machines, or one
> machine with a virtual machine inside it, makes much more sense. Linux
> looks better as the uptime grows and you use it more... switching from Win
> to Linux by rebooting just to do a quick grep slows down your learning
> considerably.
i couldn't possibly agree with you more! :)
pete
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