Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...

martinko martinkov at pobox.sk
Tue Sep 27 03:58:55 PDT 2005


John Hoover wrote:
> On 9/26/05, Kiffin Gish <kiffin at gish.demon.nl> wrote:
> 
>>I have a dual-boot laptop running on the one hand Windows XP (sorry) and
>>on the other hand good old FreeBSD.
>>
>>My question: is it possible to exchange data files between both both
>>operaing systems in an easy and efficient way?
> 
> 
> 
> I don't know if it would be considered the most efficient, but I've got my
> Sony GRT100 set up this way. It has worked out well so far.
> 
> Three partitions
> 25GB NTFS (MS XP)
> 3GB FAT32 (Data sharing)
> 12GB BSD (FreeBSD)
> 
> I'm using FreeBSD's boot manager for selecting the boot partition at
> startup.
> Best I remember I installed the above by
> 1) using FreeBSD to partition and install on ad0s3
> 2) install XP on first partition, format FAT32 partition within XP
> (admin tools -> computer management -> disk management)
> 3) reinstall FreeBSD, installing FreeBSD boot manager
> 
> You could add an entry to /etc/fstabs to mount the FAT32 partition on
> startup,
> I just mounted it by hand if I needed it.
> 
> John.
> -------------------------------------
> John F Hoover
> johnfhoover at gmail.com
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you don't even need to use fbsd's boot manager. i mean, it works, but it 
doesn't look very well, does it. :)
i prefer either grub or native windows nt/2k/xp boot manager. to use the 
latter, you need something like BootPart 
<http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm> to help you load fbsd's boot 
record/sector.



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