Dangerously dedicated?

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Thu Feb 19 15:26:37 PST 2004


On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 11:08:21PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 11:09:21PM +0100, Emiel Kollof wrote:
> : Why was DD actually implemented anyway?
> 
> I just like it because there's no delay when booting, and for an old laptop,
> it won't need to worry about any other OS.

This doesn't require DD.  All it requires is that you install a
different boot loader (standard IIRC).  I do this on my machines because
I don't multiboot them.

-- Brooks

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