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

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> 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 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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