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OS Wars
Luke: What's going on?
Han: We followed the instructions except...no FreeBSD.
Luke: Whaddya mean? Where is it?
Han: That's what I'm trying to tell you kid. All the non-Windows partitions have been totally blown away.
Luke: What?! How?
Obi Wan: Destroyed...by FreeBSD.
Han: The entire Microsoft corporation couldn't destroy all the partitions. It'd take more 1.44" floppies than you'd need to store Windows XP than I've...
There's another OS coming in.
Luke: Maybe it can tell us what happened.
Obi Wan: It's Windows 98.
Luke: It must have planned this!
Obi Wan: No, Windows 98 isn't smart enough for that.
Han: There isn't any mbr. Where'd it come from?
Luke: It sure is booting in a big hurry. If it get's to the music, we're in big trouble.
Han: Not if I can help it. Chewie, load the BeOS disk and hit the reset button.
Obi Wan: You may as well let it boot. It's too far gone now.
Han: Not for long!
Luke: It must have gotten lost, but should still exist on the disk.
Han: I don't see the partition with the BeOS install program.
Luke: I got a bad feeling about this...
Too sum up, somehow when the FreeBSD install locked up last night, it wiped out the two logical partitions. That's about all I can take of FreeBSD for one lifetime. What a miserable piece of fucking shit. *PLONK!*
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
Re: OS Wars (Score:1)
Thanks, you cheered me up this morning.
multiboot is risky all around (Score:1)
I think more people get it to work by wiping the disk clean, trying the install in one direction (OS A then B, failing, than OS B then A).
I've got FreeBSD and Windows98 running on my laptop.
Re:multiboot is risky all around (Score:2)
As it is, there's a guy who's going to give me a login and some space on a BSD machine so I can do development there. That's all I really need anyway, I suppose. :)