From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 27 12:37:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from abe.hymarc.com (homer.hymarc.com [206.191.28.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7816414BEE for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 12:37:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rleir@hymarc.com) Received: from moe.hymarc.com (moe.hymarc.com [89.0.0.5]) by abe.hymarc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA06475; Thu, 27 May 1999 15:37:30 -0400 Received: from lisa.hymarc.com (lisa.hymarc.com [89.0.0.35]) by moe.hymarc.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id PAA28773; Thu, 27 May 1999 15:37:20 -0400 Received: from hymarc.com (localhost.hymarc.com [127.0.0.1]) by lisa.hymarc.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/980728.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id PAA69715; Thu, 27 May 1999 15:37:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <374D9EEA.B821481A@hymarc.com> Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 15:37:14 -0400 From: Rick Leir Organization: Hymarc 3D Vision Systems X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5C-SGI [en] (X11; U; IRIX64 6.5 IP30) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jay Nelson Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (off-topic) thanks! References: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------E2939AA6AD2355892B2BFFF6" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------E2939AA6AD2355892B2BFFF6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have FreeBSD, Solaris and Linux installed on a P200 with a 6gig disk (note: this is not an expensive configuration!). I like all these and booting is a dilemma. One minor annoyance with Solaris: its partition has the same type as Linux swap (from memory, I forget what it is). And I wish people could agree on the terminology for partitions and slices. Jay Nelson wrote: > On Tue, 25 May 1999, Dustin Lang wrote: > >to make Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris co-exist. Hey, it could work... > The answer to your question about Solaris coexisting is -- no. the way > x86 Solaris installs will generally take an entire disk. _If_ lilo or > Further, after using FreeBSD, Solaris is _extremely_ frustrating. I wish that all *nix's were more alike. We are giving help to Mr Gates by shooting our feet. > Now -- this is thanks to all those who have contributed to the > development of FreeBSD: I agree. Cheers! > FreeBSD is the easiest OS to install and configure that I've ever > used. I agree. Cheers! -- Rick Leir, Hymarc 3D Vision Systems (613) 727 1584 x214 Fast, precise laser scanners. http://www.hymarc.com/ --------------E2939AA6AD2355892B2BFFF6 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="rleir.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Rick Leir Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="rleir.vcf" begin:vcard n:Leir;Rick x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Hymarc 3D Vision Systems adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:rleir@hymarc.com title:Software Designer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Rick Leir end:vcard --------------E2939AA6AD2355892B2BFFF6-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message