From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 25 18:33:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA13301 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 18:33:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from admin.cyberenet.net (root@admin.cyberenet.net [204.213.252.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA13296 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 18:32:59 -0700 (PDT) From: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net Received: from ux1.cyberenet.net by admin.cyberenet.net with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #7) id m0vGxcH-000NzOC; Fri, 25 Oct 96 21:32 EDT Received: from wb2oyc.ppp.cyberenet.net by ux1.cyberenet.net with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #8) id m0vGxcG-0006FKC; Fri, 25 Oct 96 21:32 EDT Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.4 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199610242315.SAA15533@night.primate.wisc.edu> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 01:13:50 -0400 (EDT) To: (Paul DuBois) Subject: Re: coexistance with DOS Cc: andrew@MNSi.Net, questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 24-Oct-96 dubois@primate.wisc.edu wrote: >>Kyle Hellewell writes: >> Hi! I'd like to know if it's possable to have freebsd coexist with Dos, >> on one partition. I know with Linux, it defaults to useing a boot disk > >You can run Linux and DOS from the same partition? > Paul DuBois, Yes you can. Linux supports a filesystem type known as "umsdos" which is UFS-like on top of plain ole FAT. NOt recommended, and not real safe or stable, but it does work. In fact, I have such a 'Linux' (Slackware) on this very same machine that also runs Debian and FreeBSD. I use that umsdos Linux as an emergency kind of thing, in case I might encounter some disaster, I've found it helpful, and certainly better than booting DOS or some unix-like thing from floppy. Paul ---------------------------------- E-Mail: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net Date: 10/26/96 Time: 01:13:50 This message was sent by XF-Mail ----------------------------------