Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 17:40:17 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: "A. L. Meyers" <a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: fbsd->linux->vmware->windoze,windoze slice,wine? Message-ID: <20010715172746.H68621-100000@localhost.de> In-Reply-To: <20010715152625.L387-100000@consult-meyers.com>
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On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, A. L. Meyers wrote: > Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 15:30:43 +0200 (CEST) > From: A. L. Meyers <a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com> > To: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: fbsd->linux->vmware->windoze,windoze slice,wine? > > On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, P. U. (Uli) Kruppa wrote: > > > On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, A. L. Meyers wrote: > > > > > Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 12:45:03 +0200 (CEST) > > > From: A. L. Meyers <a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com> > > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > Subject: fbsd->linux->vmware->windoze,windoze slice,wine? > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > Obligated to run windoze apps, e. g. accounting app. Options are: > > > > > > 1. windoze slice, use FBSD boot manager > > > > > > 2. windoze as guest OS under vmware under linux under fbsd > > > > > > 3. wine (still alpha, usable in a production environment?) > > Do 1. and try 2. & 3. when you have got the time. > > > > Uli. > > > > > > > > Accessing printer on /dev/lp0 from windoze app is a must. > > > > > > Would do you suggest, without any guarantees whatever :-) ? > > > > > > Cheers! > > > > > > Lucien > > Uli, > > Thanks for the quick reply. Taking your advice leads to these > questions: > > 1) Which FS to choose for the Windoze 98 slice if one wants to be > able to mount it under FBSD to enable read and write data > transfer between windoze and fbsd? When you set up your dos-filesystem with fdisk you get two alternatives - better do *not* select the one that supports big FS which is recommended by (you will see what I mean, I do not Know what it is called in english) The old dos-filesystem is limited to 2 GB-partitions. > 2) Depending on 1), what options should one include in the > kernel? None. You should set up Windows first (so it cannot overwrite the Bootmanager) on the first partition of your first harddrive. You can mount it from FreeBSD by # mount_msdos /dev/ad0s1 /mnt By the way: Perhaps you will find Unix applications that can handle Window's (for example StarOffice can do a lot with Word- or Excel-documents). That works faster than any emulation. Uli. > > Cheers! > > Lucien > > *--------------------------------------* | www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de | | Wuppertal - Germany | *--------------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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