And do you bloat up the price of your Linux system by bying an MS license, too ? I think you shoot a bit beside the target here, I never ever met a system where Window helped me with HW diagnostics when I couldn't do it with Linux. Usually Windows is much worse (and you can't boot a Windows off a CDROM like you can boot Linux !). Schlomo Sincerely, Schlomo Schapiro --- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.schapiro.org On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Eli Marmor wrote: > An interesting question: > > With today's huge disks, it's always useful to reserve a small > partition (hundreds of MB's) on the disk for Win, even in servers. > You never know when you will need it: For fonts (using DrakFonts), > for DLL's (to run Wine better), for hardware diagnostics and > detection (when Linux fails to do it), etc. So even in installations > of Linux servers, I reserve a small partition for Win. > > The big question is: WHAT Win exactly?Win 9x (the latest: ME), or > NT (the latest: 2000).From the first look, 2000 looks better. But I > am not sure. Do both live peacefully with a Linux partition?And > with lilo (or the similar boot software from Mandrake)? > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
