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On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:14:34 +0000 Rob Beard wrote: > > 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 Indeed, however virtualization through applications (like VirtualBox) restrict what you can do with them. I don't see too many virtual machine supporting things like PCI TV Tuner cards, etc. :D Grant. -- 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