Hi Frank,
You wrote to John Thompson:
FS> KS> Besides, why the hell do people prefere dual- boot in
FS> KS> favour of the bootmanager? Beats me.
FS> JT> I'm with you there.  I've never understood it myself.
FS> JT> But everyone has their own poison, I suppose.
FS>Different requirements, that's why.  With Dual boot you can
FS>see and use the EXACT SAME partition with either OS/2 or
FS>DOS.  With Boot manager you cannot see or use the OS/2
FS>partition while in DOS and/or the DOS partition while in
FS>OS/2.  Simple enough reason that some (maybe even many)
FS>would prefer Dual boot to Boot manager.  Different strokes.
FS>If you're short on disk space you might even NEED to have
FS>that 200-500Mb partition visible to both DOS and OS/2 like
FS>it would be using Dual Boot.
You can set up Boot Manager so that both partition are mutually visible
by putting OS/2 on an extended partition. In my system I have OS/2 on
an extended partition (E) and can happily see my DOS partition. As I
have OS/2 on HPFS I can't see it's partition from DOS, but I would be
able to if I had formatted it FAT.
FS>I'm glad we have a choice.  I ran Dual Boot for years and
FS>was much happier with it than I would have been with Boot
FS>manager due to my requirements.  My requirements have now
FS>changed and I now run Boot manager.  Choice is a good
FS>thing.  I wish there weren't so many messages blindly
FS>advising newbies to use Boot manager without even
FS>attempting to properly evaluate the newcomers needs first.
Provided the user can afford the 1 Meg for the Boot Manager partition
and can back up and restore all his existing data/programs I personally
feel that there are very few times dual boot is appropriate. I would
only recommend dual boot if the user could not re-partition the primary
drive and had to go with the existing partitioning scheme (expecting
them to spend money to get Partition Magic to fiddle partitions is not
acceptable)
FS>The person's requirements should dictate what booting
FS>system is used, not someone's OS religious beliefs :-).
Agreed.
George
 * SLMR 2.1a * My software doesn't have bugs it develops random features
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