From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 13:34:57 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 2E0D916A41F for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:34:57 +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 1ADC543D49 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:34:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EKFXx-0007M5-QI for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:31:01 +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 15:31:01 +0200 Received: from martinkov by r5k115.chello.upc.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:31:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:27:56 +0200 Lines: 78 Message-ID: <433948DC.9010804@pobox.sk> References: <43392527.5040406@pobox.sk> <200509271309.j8RD9TNv005943@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.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: <200509271309.j8RD9TNv005943@clunix.cl.msu.edu> 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 13:34:57 -0000 Jerry McAllister wrote: >>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. :) > > > It works very well. It does exactly what it is designed to do > and does it without crashing or skrewing up. > It is not loaded down with a bunch of glitzy features, if that is > what you want. But, it works well. > > ////jerry > i agree. i was referring to its look, though. no flame. m:) > >>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. >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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" >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >