On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> I've not even tried to address this situation.
> So right now I'm just asking if others have
> come up with ways of handling it.
> 
> I have two systems that multi-boot, i.e. let
> me pick which OS to boot into.  For example,
> my laptop has W2K, Solaris 9, and Fedora.
> And 'lucifer', my newest one is a try anything
> platform, and currently has 5 different OS's.
> 
> Currently, I select one OS from each multi-boot
> computer and do enter that into the disklist.
> But only if that is the one booted does it
> succeed.
> 
> I guess I could enter all the possibilities
> and let things fail or succeed as they might.
> But any other brainstorming ideas?

If you can access all files from all OSses from whatever current OS you're
running, I guess you can always back up everything by a creative use of mount
--bind and/or symlinks.

Yes, at least for W2K this will be problematic, but you know for sure you
will have problems if you engage with Windows :-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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