Re: [lug] Tri-Boot

[Dave Covey <dnc@gi.alaska.edu>]

Matt,
   I'm glad you gave rationalizations for Win98 and Win2K. But the real,
unstated reason that you installed linux is that you wanted to use the thing,
right? You don't have to be embarassed here on the lug-list, nobody really
believes that Win2K is your primary OS :-)
 - Dave
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> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 17:36:26 -0900
> To: uaflug@linux0.cs.uaf.edu
> From: matt barkdull <mattb@iarc.uaf.edu>
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> Subject: [lug] Tri-Boot
> 
> Ok, I'm now willing to share this experience.
> 
> I decided to make a tri-boot system on my Toshiba Laptop (Sat-Pro 4060DVD)
> 
> Windows 98
> Windows 2k
> RedHat Linux 7
> 
> Reasons for each OS:
> 
> Windows 2000 - my primary OS on this system.
> 
> Windows 98 - Since upgrading to Windows 2000, my DVD player has not 
> worked and I found that it was going to cost me $50-90 to get it to 
> work.  f**k that.  I can put up with a small partition of 98 to run 
> the DVD player.
> 
> Linux - I'm trying to learn more.  I'm also trying some experiments 
> at home that require me to have linux on something.
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