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Date:	Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:42:07 PDT7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Boot systems, was Next Help Desk | SC

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J. R. Fox wrote:
>
>>A word of caution about System Commander and OS/2.... If you're using the
>>latest versions of OS/2 and/or eComStation (the ones that use LVM), System
>>Commander is totally incompatible. If you install SC, you CANNOT boot to
>>eComStation because the MBR is now incompatible with LVM.

Maybe I just haven't been listing, but I am still waiting to hear
something that LVM does for us that helps. Mostly what I hear is
gotchas. It seems to be a solution looking for a problem. Mostly it
seems to be a way to play with drive letters. What problem does that solve?

Every machine I have had since Warp 3 has been multi boot - DRDOS,
MSDOS, W9X, OS/2, Linux. I have never hidden anything from any OS.
They share space and data to the extent that they are compatable.
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> If he is correct, my recent purchase was a complete waste of time & $. This seems
> to indicate I would need the version you and Sheridan are using, which I think is
> SC 2000. Back to Ebay, I guess.

I see two ways to manage a computer. One is to buy a preconfigured
system, leave the screws in the case, and operate it as the manufacturer
intended.

The other, is set it up so you can alter anything to your hearts
content, destroy it at will, and return to a predetermined state almost
instantly. A primary element of that system is a spare, plug-in HDD.

If you want to know if some boot system will work with your various OSs,
try it on the spare HDD. If it blows up, wipe it off and the only thing
lost is the experimentation time. If it works, either do the same thing
to the primary HDD, or the spare becomes the primary. I have two HDD,
both over 10G that have traded places several times in the last few years.

Ray

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