From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 20 10:54:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA12952 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 10:54:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12945 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 10:54:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-129.laker.net [208.0.233.29]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id NAA09973; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 13:54:00 -0400 Message-Id: <199810201754.NAA09973@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Craig Metz" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 13:52:58 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD and NetBSD coexistence? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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