From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 22 05:22:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA00923 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 05:22:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from athena.dorm.rutgers.edu (damascus@athena.dorm.rutgers.edu [165.230.188.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00874 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 12:22:43 GMT (envelope-from damascus@eden.rutgers.edu) Received: from localhost (damascus@localhost) by athena.dorm.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id IAA01093 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:22:54 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:22:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Carroll Kong X-Sender: damascus@athena.dorm.rutgers.edu cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD and Windows In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id MAA00882 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Whoa... totally not true here guys. I am new to the list, but I have been Quad Booting from Windows 95 / PC-DOS, Windows NT, FreeBSD, and Linux for quite some time. I will admit, running FreeBSD 3.0 and mounting ext2fs drives is bad bad news... at least mounting root drives. I must have missed a setting and it ripped some SUID bits for Linux. But overall, if you just mount stuff like the /home partition for linux under FreeBSD, the interoperability is great. (except for the fact that ONLY 3.0 can read fat, but it is supposed unstable, so I am putting back 2.2.6 on this box with the vfat patch... can anyone attest to 3.0 being stable - unstable, I know this is the wrong list for it.. but.. :) ) Unfortunately, the real key to success here is NT's bootloader. Since with it, all I need is a mere 512 byte sector from FreeBSD, which is pretty easy to do. (and a bit of partitioning knowledge). If anyone needs help ... I will be glad to help. I figure it should not be too bad with lilo either?!? Carroll Kong On 22 Apr 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > Parag Patel writes: > > On 4/21/98 11:22 AM, Gary Kline (kline@tera.tera.com) said: > > > After 5 weeks of trying to dual-boot FBSD and Debian, I > > > gave up. Shouldn't be this hard, but is. > > I surrendered and spent $50 on a copy of System Commander. I wish I'd > > bought a copy years ago. It can boot anything from any slice from any > > disk. Nice. > > No, not nice. It`s a horrible hack and will crash and burn (not to > mention fsck up your filesystems) if you have anything but the most > conventional setup, because it makes assumptions about various > operatings systems that just don`t hold. The Right Way (tm) to do this > is assume nothing at all and pretend you weren`t there (POLA). > > -- > Noone else has a .sig like this one. I agree 100%. System Commander is.... will I personally do not like it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message