What is the "better / best " method to multi-boot different OSes natively WITHOUT VirtualBox(es) ?

Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
Sat Oct 24 19:41:43 UTC 2020


On Sat, 24 Oct 2020 21:32:11 +0200
Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Oct 2020 10:40:10 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> > On 2020-10-24 03:10, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> > > On Sat, 24 Oct 2020 02:51:25 -0700
> > > TheBigBlue Guard <thebigblueguard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > >> Yes ...everyone...What is the "better /best and least expensive "
> > > 
> > > 	A [boot] swap drive bay is the most foolproof and reliable
> > > method that ensures no OS no matter how buggy or misguided can mess
> > > up another.
> > 
> > 
> > Boot drive swap bay -- minimum effort, maximum reliability, and maximum 
> > expense.  This is what I do.
> > 
> > 
> > Multi-boot -- maximum effort, minimum reliability, and minimum expense.
> 
> Add safety to the list - a disk that is not in the machine
> cannot be messed up by a stupid installer program. :-)

	This is (an example of) what makes it the least expensive approach,
anything else is bound to wind up costing you hours at some point.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>


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