On Saturday 02 September 2006 20:30, stephan beal wrote:
On Saturday 02 September 2006 22:38, Felix Miata wrote:
On 06/09/02 21:39 (GMT+0200) stephan beal apparently typed:
Sometimes i'll make /boot on its own partition, but in recent years this has come to be an obsolete practice.
It's hardly obsolete if you multiboot, even with only two OS installations. When you have many, it's convenient and a good safety device to have at least one /boot with Grub that gets touched only
That's a good point and absolutely true, but if you have many OSes installed you're (A) a heretic ;) and (B) probably not using the machine to work with but more to experiment with. i haven't had a 3-OS machine set up in ... nearly 10 years (back in the days when it was fun to try to pack them all on a 420MB drive).
Huh? Mine is definitely a daily work machine with: XP - for those times where importing/exporting just doesn't cut it 9.3 - my previous daily desktop, kept current in case my present one dies 10.0 - my current daily desktop 10.1 - my next daily desktop, will 'settle in' when I'm confident it's 'tamed' Each environment points to a common data set under /home (separate partition) so my data is 'in sync' regardless of the environment I'm booted into. Does that make me a heretic? ;-)