Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 01:19:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Bzdik BSD <bzdik@yahoo.com> To: Charles Burns <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>, res03db2@gte.net, daemons@inwind.it Cc: bobread@ids.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Win98+Linux+FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20010426081950.43417.qmail@web13608.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <F103QXMG4TXdNxz1oub0000ba99@hotmail.com>
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google around for OSLoader, it doesn' t require anything and it's free as in beer --- Charles Burns <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> wrote: > 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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