Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 18:28:29 +0100 (GMT-1) From: af@biomath.jussieu.fr To: irpurdie@comp.brad.ac.uk (MAD Mosher) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot partition? Message-ID: <199606241728.SAA13558@garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <31CE9DD5.7B4E@comp.brad.ac.uk> from "MAD Mosher" at Jun 24, 96 02:53:25 pm
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MAD Mosher wrote / a ecrit:
>
> I'm very interested in nabbing FreeBSD for use at home. We've got 4
> machines in the house (one Atari with Linux, and three PCs (one
> Windows3.1, one DOS6.22 and one OS/2!)) and some spare 386 motherboards.
>
> Basically, would it be possible, using network cards, to get all four of
> these to 'talk' to a 386 running FreeBSD? I don't want to take up all
> your time asking you how, just simply is it?
Basically, yes, unless Atari Linux has no TCP/IP sofware, or can't
drive any Ethernet card (I know next to nothing about Atari's) -- but
I doubt it could be.
On the Windows PC, you can use the Microsoft TCP/IP stack for Windows
and the numerous freeware or shareware Winsock applications for
terminal emulation, file transfer, mail etc. On the DOS one, you can
get a packet driver for your particular Ethernet interface and use
NCSA Telnet for terminal and file transfer.
I'm not sure there's a "free" (or bundled) TCP/IP stack for OS/2, last
time I checked, it seemed that Warp's could only talk over async lines
(and not drive an Ethernet card). But I may be wrong. I'm sure IBM
sells one anyway.
You will probably also want to install SAMBA on your FreeBSD machine.
This will allow DOS, Windows (and OS/2?) machines to use the FreeBSD
machine's filesystems as network drives. The client is built into
Windows, and I think Microsoft gives the DOS client for free (on their
ftp server ftp.microsoft.com).
> Also, it sounds like a nice OS that I'd like to consider myself,
> but I
> also like DOS. Is it possible, like Linux, to get FreeBSD to install
> it's own boot sector and to ask the user which OS to use at boot time?
Yes... the FreeBSD installation process allows you to install a piece
of code in your disk's MBR that will prompt you to hit F1 or F2 etc.
depending on the partition (and disk) you wish to boot from, and then
let you choose which operating system to run.
Welcome to FreeBSD. Make the step, take the necessary time to
carefully read the doc files and you won't regret it. It's a wonderful
system.
Good luck,
_Alain_
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I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator"
But... I *am* the system administrator :-]
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