Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 00:05:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenny Drobnack <kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu> To: mlduke <mlduke@concentric.net> Cc: nicholas paredes <nicholas.paredes@opmedia.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd/nt Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990825235951.4280A-100000@mission.mvnc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908251450060.5553-100000@mlduke.concentric.net>
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I am running a dual boot FreeBSD/NT box. I don't actually use the NT very much. Its much more stable than Win95/98. 95/98 crash about once a day, NT about once in 3 days. I think in the nearly 1 month since I first put FreeBSD on my system, its only had problems once. And it didn't really crash. There was just a rampant process dumping so much stuff to the screen I had to do a "kill -9" on the process. THUMP! Anyway, as far as I know, FreeBSD doesn't run on Alpha (yet) but NetBSD definitely does and OpenBSD I am not sure about, but I'm thinking it does. Yes, definitely install NT FIRST! NT puts its own boot loader on it and writes a "signature file" out to the disk so the disk administrator can access it. Unfortunately, one time this killed the first partition on that hard drive (bye bye to the first couple sectors of it). Recommended: fdisk, wipe out all partitions and the boot sector. Install NT. Pop in a second hard drive, install whatever BSD system you end up with (FreeBSD on Intel, or NetBSD on Alpha, seem like the best choices) on the second drive. > If NT acts pretty much as wincrash95, you can share the disk between > FBSD and /dos, and install the boot manager on dos. Probably should > install NT first, because NT will likely destroy the boot manager > just like w95 will, though it's easy to reinstall. > > The handbook and "The Compllete BSD" by Greg Lehey explain all of > this thoroughly. > > ML Duke > > > hi; > > > > i have a design office that is primarily mac based, except for the > > cobalt (linux) web servers and file servers, and require the addition of > > an nt machine. i am considering a compaq alpha and would like the option > > of booting into either nt or freebsd, similar to linuxppc or osx server > > and the mac os. any information would be appreciated. thank you. > > > > -- > > nicholas paredes > > > > ovresat paredes > > 805 greenwood > > evanston, illinois 60201 > > > > telephone 847 570 9901 x17 > > facsimile 847 570 9903 > > email nicholas.paredes@opmedia.com > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > ----- We are now the Knights who say... "Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-PTANG! Zoom-Boing! Z'nourrwringmm!" ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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