Excerpt from Gan Starling:

>At first I tried to use NetBSD to partition the 20GB HD
>and install itself on part of it. That worked out fine.

>Then, when I tried to put Win2K onto the other part,
>Win2K said it was corrupt.

I think there must be a bug in Win2K (what else is new?), as well as MS-DOS and
Win98, not recognizing a partition produced by a Linux or NetBSD fdisk.  I
once had a hard disk in three logical partitions created by Linux fdisk: FAT,
HPFS and Linux ext2 in that order.  FAT and HPFS partitions were formatted by
OS/2, and Linux partition was formatted by Linux.  This was a second (slave)
hard disk, with bootable partitions on the first hard disk.  DR-DOS, OS/2 Warp 4
and Linux were all able to read the FAT partition, but MS-DOS, and Win98SE
bootdisk, called this partition "Invalid media".  Maybe Win2K carries the same
or similar bug?

In MS's view, corrupt is defined as anything non-Windows; civilized computer
users never have any desire to run anything but a current MS-Windows.  Then MS
was uncivilized by virtue of using FreeBSD on their Web servers, because their
Windows was not up to strength?

MS-Windows and some applications have been known to trash non-Windows
partitions, not to mention overwriting any non-MS boot manager.  Other PC OSes
are written with the expectation that users might want to run one or more
additional OSes.  For this reason, among others, I don't want MS to have any
more of my money.