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From: keith@ksmith.com (Keith Smith)
Subject: Re: Why use linux was Re: Why would I want LINUX?
Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 00:58:21 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Aug26.005821.26078@ksmith.com>
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In article <1993Aug23.124406.856@finbol.toppoint.de> jschief@finbol.toppoint.de writes:
>j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>>off-the-standard booting scheme (LILO). With *BSD using a normal dozz
>lilo works for me and most other, and there may come the time
>that dos boot schemes are obsolent.( boot from first HD smaler 1GB)

I have found booting to be annoying on _ALL_ IBM-PC based hardware.  My
old Heath H-8 had software that would allow me to boot at will from
_ANY_ disk partition (And it supported like up to 256), as well as from
floppy.   The H-120 used to come up and give you "The Finger" and allow
you to boot either DOS(86) or CP/M-85 from the finger prompt.

My first thought on an AT was "But what if I want to boot something
besides DOS?"  Oh, I get to jump thru hoops, nice.
-- 
Keith Smith          keith@ksmith.com              5719 Archer Rd.
Digital Designs      BBS 1-919-423-4216            Hope Mills, NC 28348-2201
Somewhere in the Styx of North Carolina ...