Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 13:52:58 -0400 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "Craig Metz" <cmetz@inner.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and NetBSD coexistence? Message-ID: <199810201754.NAA09973@laker.net>
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On Tue, 20 Oct 1998 08:27:37 -0300, Craig Metz wrote: > Has anyone gotten a configuration like this to work, and what do you need to >be done to untangle these? I've been letting various OSes share hard drives for years, and I'm really sick of it. Especially since anything based on DOS, i.e., WinBlows, OS/2, assign drive letters for me (which I DON'T want it to do), and every time I have to delete a partition, everything is out of whack for the other OSes. I was a project manager at my last company and I set up a test bed for our app that used a SyQuest SparQ 1.0GB drive as a boot drive. When I wanted to switch to a different OS for testing purposes, I simply changed the cartridge!! The SparQ is available as IDE and some BIOSes wouldn't recognize it and therefore couldn't use it as a primary boot drive. I would really recommend the SyQuest SyJet 1.5GB drive because it is available as a SCSI interface. Of course, my ideas require money, and you may have a tight budget. Just wanted to make you aware of this alternative. BTW, the SparQ carts are less than $33. The SyJet cart is around $79 now. These are local retail prices, and you can probably do better thru mail-order... I haven't yet tried either of these drives with FreeBSD, due to my own cash flow problems. I do have a SyJet at home, but it's in a non-FreeBSD machine. I've been really happy with it. I've used it with WinNT and OS/2. Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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