Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:19:35 -0700 From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> To: res03db2@gte.net, daemons@inwind.it Cc: bobread@ids.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Win98+Linux+FreeBSD? Message-ID: <F103QXMG4TXdNxz1oub0000ba99@hotmail.com>
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The commercial product "System Commander" allows a system to use an unreasonably large number of OS's by pulling some evil tricks. It works well, too. Unfortunately it REQUIRES a FAT or FAT32 drive to run off of. The guys that made it are good--They make ASM debugging tools and have created a custom font in BIOS for the program to make it look snazzy yet still be in text mode. (If anyone knows how to do this let me know) I don't have a link for this program's website handy but it shouldn't be too hard to Google. >From: Robert Clark <res03db2@gte.net> >To: Omar Gani <daemons@inwind.it> >CC: bobread@ids.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Win98+Linux+FreeBSD? >Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:19:00 -0700 > > >With some clever manipulation, you can have more >than 4 partitions in a hard disk. > >But you can only have 4 of them setup at once. > >Its been some time ago, but the sequence went something >like this: > > >Setup DOS. >Boot DOS. >Use pfdisk to make snapshot #1 of the partition table. >Setup OS #2. >Reboot to DOS. >Use pfdisk to make snapshot #2 of p table. >Use pfdisk to restore snapshot #1 of p table. >Reboot. >Setup OS #3. >Repeat as necessary. >(Eventually build a boot menu for DOS.) > > >I realize that its ugly. But some commercial products >do similar things. > >[RC] > > >On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 11:40:12PM +0200, Omar Gani wrote: > > At 15.17 12/04/2001 -0400, you wrote: > > >Looking for some advice. > > > > > >Can anyone offer advice? > > > > > >Much Thanks, > > > > > >Bob > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > Keep in mind that you can't make more than 4 partitions in a > > hard disk. So unless you put linux partitions on logical > > DOS/win9X partition, you have to exactly 4 partition (DOS/win9X, > > FreeBSD, Linux & Linux's SWAP). > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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