Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 21:35:11 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "Jesse O. Glidden" <gorfgar@netzero.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Considering FreeBSD Message-ID: <200103030335.f233ZBe25740@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Jesse O. Glidden" <gorfgar@netzero.net> of "Fri, 02 Mar 2001 12:49:07 MST." <4.3.2.7.0.20010302124126.00a8df00@pop.netzero.net>
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"Jesse O. Glidden" writes:
[...]
> I have never been able to get my 3Com pcimodem to work under Linux.
If its a winmodem (probably) then its only going to work in Windows.
> Also, does FreeBSD have a dual-boot utility like LILO, because until I get
> these problems worked out, I absolutely have to keep Windows running (which
> I would do anyway because I have 2 hds).
No, FreeBSD does not have a utility like LILO. FreeBSD has a simple and
elegant boot manager which does not require a 1000 page HOWTO to
configure. Does not require a re-installation just because you updated
your kernel. Or added another drive. Or installed NT or something on
another partition.
One big difference between FreeBSD and Linux, which in practice isn't
much difference at all, is that FreeBSD likes to put a traditional BSD
partitions inside a Microsoft partition (known as a "slice" in BSDish).
I have 2 HD's on this system. FreeBSD uses partition 2 on the SCSI disk,
partition 3 on the ATA100 disk.
grumpy: {1049} df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/da0s2a 69407 37347 26508 58% /
/dev/da0s2f 7647844 5778854 1257163 82% /usr
/dev/da0s2e 128943 12823 105805 11% /var
/dev/ad4s3e 127023 2 116860 0% /usr2
/dev/ad4s3f 254063 1 233737 0% /usr3
/dev/ad4s3g 34682218 6648347 25259294 21% /usr4
procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
grumpy: {1050}
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