My latest warning against dual- and triple-booting Linux and BSDs

Posted by Steven_Rosenber on Aug 14, 2008 11:40 PM EDT
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My advice is to avoid dual-booting, and especially triple-booting (or even more than that). If you set up a box to dual-boot with two Linux distros, Linux and Windows, or even a BSD (OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD) and Linux, and you leave it alone, you'll probably be OK. But me, I'm testing things all the time, and lately I've been playing around with triple-booting on my Gateway Solo 1450 laptop. I've done this a lot, and I generally know how to do it so I don't hose one partition or another. But I slightly hosed something on the laptop last night.

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