Dual booting on 1 physical drive isn't really bullet proof. Assuming your laptop bios supports booting from a usb drive, you can use a usb stick or a usb hard drive and install linux on that along with putting the boot loader on the usb drive as well. I've installed Suse on a 4g usb stick and haven't had any issues yet. -----Original Message----- From: Edward Vermillion [mailto:evermillion@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 4:39 PM To: ceo@xxxxxxxxx Cc: php Lists Subject: Re: running linux On Apr 20, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Richard Lynch wrote: > On Fri, April 20, 2007 3:59 pm, Edward Vermillion wrote: >> >> On Apr 20, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: >> >>> You're exactly right, Richard. MacOS is based on BSD. >>> >>> >> >> And if you have any familiarity with linux administration, forget >> almost everything you know 'cause they changed it in OSX... > > Hmmm. > > I didn't try to "administer" much, but once I find and open up a > terminal window, it pretty was just like being on BSD, afaict... > > I'm not a BSD (nor Linux) guru, but I typed things in the shell, and > they did what I expected... > Yeah, the shell is familiar and except for a few differences between linux and bsd in some of the commands it's very familiar. But pretty much everything under /etc has been replaced with NetInfo. I'm sure it's great for guys that have a thousand boxes to admin, but it's a pain for just setting up one box. I guess I could spend a week or so getting familiar with all the command line stuff for NetInfo since the GUI is no real help. But it sure would be nice to just be able to edit the config files like I'm used to... Ed -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
