Hi Chris:
If you like or know how to use DOS, it's an additional boot option, which is (to me) kind of nice...because me like-ee DOS. Of course there are other options - live CD's and linux distros.
I'll add that if you are NOT inclined to use DOS much, it will therefore leave that critical slice of your drive comparatively untouched, which could be an advantage in itself.
Cheers,
-Martin.
--- On Fri, 7/1/11, c beck <usabecker@gmail.com> wrote:
From: c beck <usabecker@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Why set up DOS? Was: Wont boot..help
To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, July 1, 2011, 12:17 AM
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Martin Warren
<elephant_range@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Sorry, Yvonne. Your Ubuntu expert gave you expert info on Ubuntu, but wasn't very farsighted, in my opinion. They neglected to advise you to set up a 200MB DOS partition as hda1 if you're doing a multi-boot. Dinosaur-Land has saved my proverbial ass on more than one occasion.
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I'm curious how giving a partition to DOS provides an advantage over
another linux install or a live cd? Primary partitions are fairly
valuable if you are multibooting with windows, right? Thanks for any
insight.
Cheers, ~Chris
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