Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 23:18:46 -0500 (EST) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Boot ManagerQuestions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012312313430.9572-100000@browning.pennasoft.com> In-Reply-To: <3A4FC476.F0BE8030@quake.com.au>
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On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Kal Torak wrote:
> Chris BeHanna wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Kal Torak wrote:
> >
> > > On a laptop I dont really see why anyone would want to duel boot with
> > > windows, its not like you are going to be playing OpenGL games on a
> > > laptop, and IMO thats all windows is useful for... And that is slowly
> > > changing, since now Quake3 is ported to FreeBSD Im sure more games
> > > will follow! :)
> >
> > You might want to use a piece of unsupported hardware, like your
> > DVD drive (for watching movies) or a SmartMedia-to-USB adapter.
>
> Rip the DVD to the hdd and play it with AVIFILE from the ports :P
Not very practical. A typical movie fills up 10GB. Yes, you
could rip it to something smaller, but that's still pretty impractical.
> Biuld support for your hardware!
I made an overture, but the silence from the USB guys was
deafening. I may have hit them at a busy time.
> Dont use SmartMedia-to-USB adapter :)
I already have it. It'd be a shame to have paid for it, and then
spend the money on a PCMCIA IDE adapter for it.
> Simple all your duel boot needs gone!
Almost. We don't have (and won't have for some time), support for
the Sorensen codec; therefore, many (most?) Quicktime clips cannot be
viewed, and for some time to come, we also won't have support for ASX
or ASF streams. I can live without most of that, but it's darned
inconvenient.
I've made some headway with porting LiViD (for DVDs), but time is
at a premium right now, and that work has come to a standstill.
Then there's mounting CD-RWs that haven't been closed out to
ISO9660.
I'm not bitching, mind you--I love FreeBSD, and only boot Windows
when I absolutely must. These are just reasons why I cannot yet
completely jettison Windows.
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer
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