Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 07:54:04 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Jason Victor <sloppyj123@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A novel idea.... Message-ID: <20010404075404.P12164@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20010404121602.29670.qmail@web4304.mail.yahoo.com>; from sloppyj123@yahoo.com on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 05:16:02AM -0700 References: <20010404121602.29670.qmail@web4304.mail.yahoo.com>
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* Jason Victor <sloppyj123@yahoo.com> [010404 05:17] wrote: > Hi. I have to have Windows on my computer, and will > NOT spoil my perfectly tweaked Debian installation. > What I was wondering was: is there a UMSDOS of Phat > Linux-type thing for FreeBSD? I think this would be an > interesting project to undertake. If there isn't one, > and anyone wants to start it, tell me what a > (relatively) newbie C programmer can do. I think it > would increase migration to FreeBSD from Windows, as > opposed to ONLY Linux. You can take a look at picoBSD: http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ Since FreeBSD can mount linux/msdos disks, what you can do is a) use EXT2 as a backing filesystem b) use a file in EXT2/msdosfs as a backing node for a virtual device: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vn&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.2-RELEASE&format=html and create a filesystem in that. > And something completely unrelated: do FreeBSD > drivers/HOWTOs work on OpenBSD and NetBSD? Drivers, not really, HOWTOs depends on the howto, most Linux howtos which are really samba/mgetty/vi/apache howtos work on FreeBSD. :) > And what > are the REAL reasons that you guys prefer FreeBSD to > Linux? I like FreeBSD because I get to fix the problems I come across rather than having to submit it along with massive companies like SGI where I fear getting lost in the noise. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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