From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 4 7:54: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82ACB37B718 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 07:54:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f34Es4O06847; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 07:54:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 07:54:04 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jason Victor Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A novel idea.... Message-ID: <20010404075404.P12164@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20010404121602.29670.qmail@web4304.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010404121602.29670.qmail@web4304.mail.yahoo.com>; from sloppyj123@yahoo.com on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 05:16:02AM -0700 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jason Victor [010404 05:17] wrote: > Hi. I have to have Windows on my computer, and will > NOT spoil my perfectly tweaked Debian installation. > What I was wondering was: is there a UMSDOS of Phat > Linux-type thing for FreeBSD? I think this would be an > interesting project to undertake. If there isn't one, > and anyone wants to start it, tell me what a > (relatively) newbie C programmer can do. I think it > would increase migration to FreeBSD from Windows, as > opposed to ONLY Linux. You can take a look at picoBSD: http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ Since FreeBSD can mount linux/msdos disks, what you can do is a) use EXT2 as a backing filesystem b) use a file in EXT2/msdosfs as a backing node for a virtual device: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vn&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.2-RELEASE&format=html and create a filesystem in that. > And something completely unrelated: do FreeBSD > drivers/HOWTOs work on OpenBSD and NetBSD? Drivers, not really, HOWTOs depends on the howto, most Linux howtos which are really samba/mgetty/vi/apache howtos work on FreeBSD. :) > And what > are the REAL reasons that you guys prefer FreeBSD to > Linux? I like FreeBSD because I get to fix the problems I come across rather than having to submit it along with massive companies like SGI where I fear getting lost in the noise. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message