From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 10:58:55 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CE6216A41F for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:58:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6C3643D53 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:58:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EKD8j-0006Ef-Bv for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:56:49 +0200 Received: from r5k115.chello.upc.cz ([86.49.10.115]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:56:49 +0200 Received: from martinkov by r5k115.chello.upc.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:56:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:55:35 +0200 Lines: 47 Message-ID: <43392527.5040406@pobox.sk> References: <433852A8.10900@gish.demon.nl> <5730154705092613437b02023b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: r5k115.chello.upc.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050925 X-Accept-Language: sk, cs, en-gb, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <5730154705092613437b02023b@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news Subject: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:58:55 -0000 John Hoover wrote: > On 9/26/05, Kiffin Gish wrote: > >>I have a dual-boot laptop running on the one hand Windows XP (sorry) and >>on the other hand good old FreeBSD. >> >>My question: is it possible to exchange data files between both both >>operaing systems in an easy and efficient way? > > > > I don't know if it would be considered the most efficient, but I've got my > Sony GRT100 set up this way. It has worked out well so far. > > Three partitions > 25GB NTFS (MS XP) > 3GB FAT32 (Data sharing) > 12GB BSD (FreeBSD) > > I'm using FreeBSD's boot manager for selecting the boot partition at > startup. > Best I remember I installed the above by > 1) using FreeBSD to partition and install on ad0s3 > 2) install XP on first partition, format FAT32 partition within XP > (admin tools -> computer management -> disk management) > 3) reinstall FreeBSD, installing FreeBSD boot manager > > You could add an entry to /etc/fstabs to mount the FAT32 partition on > startup, > I just mounted it by hand if I needed it. > > John. > ------------------------------------- > John F Hoover > johnfhoover@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > you don't even need to use fbsd's boot manager. i mean, it works, but it doesn't look very well, does it. :) i prefer either grub or native windows nt/2k/xp boot manager. to use the latter, you need something like BootPart to help you load fbsd's boot record/sector.