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- From: sdawson@sbgrad8.cs.sunysb.edu (Steven Dawson)
- Subject: Re: How to boot a SCSI drive (w/ a WD7000 FASST)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.011419.22364@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
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- Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
- References: <1992Sep14.114513.21477@colorado.edu> <1992Sep14.200938.25497@unislc.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 01:14:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep14.200938.25497@unislc.uucp> erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
- >
- >I don't know why more people aren't using bootlin, since it has less impact
- >on the system than anything else I've seen.
-
- As someone who does use bootlin (note the thinly veiled disguise of the
- coming non-Linux-specific question), I would like to poll fellow users
- for suggestions of alternatives to BOOT.SYS as the means of selection
- from DOS. BOOT.SYS does what I ask of it quite well, but I don't feel
- that what I ask it to do (i.e. give me the choice between DOS and Linux)
- comes anywhere close to being worth $39, and I don't want to use
- unregistered shareware. Could someone suggest one or more reasonable
- (and cheaper) alternatives? For the purposes of this question, I'll define
- "reasonable" as "doesn't achieve configuration selection by file renaming
- and reboot" and "still allows convenient use of bootlin."
-
- Add my plaudits for the contributors to Linux to those of the many other
- thrilled and impressed Linux users.
-
- Many thanks,
- -Steve Dawson
- (sdawson@sbcs.sunysb.edu)
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