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On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 11:47 +0000, Grant Sewell wrote: <snip> > Careful... you'll end up doing what I did! > > 1 PC, 3 harddrives + 1 DVD drive, 8 OSs: > > 1 x Mandrake Linux 9.1 > 1 x Mandrake Linux 10 > 1 x Slackware (I forget the version) > 1 x Debian Progeny > 1 x FreeBSD > 1 x QNX > 1 x OpenBSD > 1 x Win2000 > > It was due to be 9 OSs as I was installing Darwin (which is the basis > for Mac OSX) onto a 'spare' partition... alas I misread Darwin's way of > describing partitions and managed to obliterate Win2000. Beauty is > that I didn't even realise this was the case for about 3 or 4 months, > and when I did find I had no Win2000 anymore (the boot option started > loading Darwin instead) I figured that I didn't need it if I hadn't > even noticed it missing in that time. > > I've never looked back since. This is where virtualization is great, for running multiple OSes without the risk of wiping anything. I've done that myself, easy mistake to make! Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html