From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 23 17:23:55 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA15595 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:23:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bc.seflin.org (bc.seflin.org [199.227.192.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA15587 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:23:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from a030058t@bc.seflin.org) Received: by bc.seflin.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) id UAA13530; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:23:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:23:30 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Belanger Message-Id: <199901240123.UAA13530@bc.seflin.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-URL: http://www.freebsd.org/mailto.html X-Mailer: Lynx, Version 2.8rel.2 Subject: http://www.freebsd.org/mailto.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm sending a comment, not a question but I didn't know where to send it to. I want the poor souls out there who are like me, have a computer with rather small hard drives (my PC has two hard drives, (an IDE hard drive 163 Mb and a scsi hard drive (234 Mb on an Adaptec AHA 1542CF card, card that I bought used). People who still need to run software/hardware that won't run under anything else but Windows or who just want to maximize the resources of their computer. I want people to know that IT IS possible to use FreeBSD with Win95's DoubleSpace. Not directly, I know, but FreeBSD CAN boot a DoubleSpace-compressed Win 95 partition using the BootEasy boot manager (I've done it and still do). By using disk compression on the Win95 partition, the user can cram more programs/data in less hard drive space, leaving more space to FreeBSD. I'm still trying to figure out how to use an uncompressed DOS partition as a bridge between Win95 and FreeBSD. It would be great if the disk compressing program/patch e2compr could be ported to FreeBSD. -- a030058t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message