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

martinko martinkov at pobox.sk
Tue Sep 27 06:34:57 PDT 2005


Jerry McAllister wrote:
>>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. :)
> 
> 
> It works very well.   It does exactly what it is designed to do
> and does it without crashing or skrewing up.    
> It is not loaded down with a bunch of glitzy features, if that is
> what you want.  But, it works well.
> 
> ////jerry
> 

i agree. i was referring to its look, though. no flame.

m:)

> 
>>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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