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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 09:28:31 +0200 (CEST)
From: "A. L. Meyers" <a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com>
To: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
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Subject: Re: fbsd->linux->vmware->windoze,windoze slice,wine?
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On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, P. U. (Uli) Kruppa wrote:

(big snip)

> > Uli,
> >
> > Thanks for the quick reply. Taking your advice leads to these
> > questions:
> >
> > 1) Which FS to choose for the Windoze 98 slice if one wants to be
> > able to mount it under FBSD to enable read and write data
> > transfer between windoze and fbsd?
> When you set up your dos-filesystem with fdisk you get two
> alternatives - better do *not* select the one that supports
> big FS which is recommended by (you will see what I mean, I
> do not Know what it is called in english)
> The old dos-filesystem is limited to 2 GB-partitions.
>
> > 2) Depending on 1), what options should one include in the
> > kernel?
> None. You should set up Windows first (so it cannot
> overwrite the Bootmanager) on the first partition of your
> first harddrive. You can mount it from FreeBSD by
>
> # mount_msdos /dev/ad0s1 /mnt

Thanks, Uli. It's working. Set up fbsd to mount the DOS slice as
/dos.

>
> By the way:
> Perhaps you will find Unix applications that can handle
> Window's (for example StarOffice can do a lot with Word- or
> Excel-documents). That works faster than any emulation.
> >
> Uli.
>

Whenever I need to communicate with the nearly monopolized IT
world, I use StarOffice. However, programmers have not
yet ported many widespread accounting apps to Unix and
clones.

Cheers!

Lucien


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