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> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: fbsd->linux->vmware->windoze,windoze slice,wine? Message-ID: <20010716092324.M424-100000@consult-meyers.com> In-Reply-To: <20010715172746.H68621-100000@localhost.de>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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