Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:34:57 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net> To: Charles Burns <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Win98+Linux+FreeBSD? Message-ID: <3AE7C191.E8D3ED6@webmail.bmi.net> References: <F103QXMG4TXdNxz1oub0000ba99@hotmail.com>
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Charles Burns wrote: > > The commercial product "System Commander" allows a system to use an > unreasonably large number of OS's by pulling some evil tricks. It works > well, too. > Unfortunately it REQUIRES a FAT or FAT32 drive to run off of. > The guys that made it are good--They make ASM debugging tools and have > created a custom font in BIOS for the program to make it look snazzy yet > still be in text mode. (If anyone knows how to do this let me know) > Actually, it's very simple. All video adapters since EGA (those claiming at least marginal VGA compatibility) have a software character generator. All the BIOS does is supply the masters which are loaded up into memory. There's an INT 10 interface to do this. The hard part is actually mastering (re: designing the font) so it looks good. A long time ago, in a place far, far away I wrote a CRT unit for Quick Pascal that supported 80x50 mode on a Tandy 2000 (which has a different, but functionally similar character generator to a VGA-compatible adapter). I supplied my own custom 8x8 font and loaded it up to the character generator. It's probably still rattling around in what's left of CompuServe . . . :) jmc > I don't have a link for this program's website handy but it shouldn't be too > hard to Google. > > >From: Robert Clark <res03db2@gte.net> > >To: Omar Gani <daemons@inwind.it> > >CC: bobread@ids.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >Subject: Re: Win98+Linux+FreeBSD? > >Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:19:00 -0700 > > > > > >With some clever manipulation, you can have more > >than 4 partitions in a hard disk. > > > >But you can only have 4 of them setup at once. > > > >Its been some time ago, but the sequence went something > >like this: > > > > > >Setup DOS. > >Boot DOS. > >Use pfdisk to make snapshot #1 of the partition table. > >Setup OS #2. > >Reboot to DOS. > >Use pfdisk to make snapshot #2 of p table. > >Use pfdisk to restore snapshot #1 of p table. > >Reboot. > >Setup OS #3. > >Repeat as necessary. > >(Eventually build a boot menu for DOS.) > > > > > >I realize that its ugly. But some commercial products > >do similar things. > > > >[RC] > > > > > >On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 11:40:12PM +0200, Omar Gani wrote: > > > At 15.17 12/04/2001 -0400, you wrote: > > > >Looking for some advice. > > > > > > > >Can anyone offer advice? > > > > > > > >Much Thanks, > > > > > > > >Bob > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > Keep in mind that you can't make more than 4 partitions in a > > > hard disk. So unless you put linux partitions on logical > > > DOS/win9X partition, you have to exactly 4 partition (DOS/win9X, > > > FreeBSD, Linux & Linux's SWAP). > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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