looking for ideas: creating a data partition for a dual boot system

2007-12-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have both vista and freebsd 8-current installed on the same drive and also have allocated the rest of the disk to be a fat32 partition. I know I should put any data I want to be passed between the two on the fat32 partition. Now the question is how to lay it out so that: 1. The home dir for

Re: looking for ideas: creating a data partition for a dual boot system

2007-12-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 03:43:14PM -0500, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I have both vista and freebsd 8-current installed on the same drive and also have allocated the rest of the disk to be a fat32 partition. I know I should put any data I want to be passed between the two on the fat32 partition.

Re: looking for ideas: creating a data partition for a dual boot system

2007-12-11 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 2. Share the same Desktop folder (I think if #1 is solved this is automatic) Maybe, but the Desktop folder would be pretty much useless for FreeBSD. Maybe there is an X window manager that could do something usefull with it, but I doubt it.

Re: looking for ideas: creating a data partition for a dual boot system

2007-12-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 04:19:14PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 2. Share the same Desktop folder (I think if #1 is solved this is automatic) Maybe, but the Desktop folder would be pretty much useless for FreeBSD. Maybe there is an X

Re: looking for ideas: creating a data partition for a dual boot system

2007-12-11 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 04:19:14PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 2. Share the same Desktop folder (I think if #1 is solved this is automatic) Maybe, but the Desktop folder

Re: looking for ideas: creating a data partition for a dual boot system

2007-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 03:43:14PM -0500, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I have both vista and freebsd 8-current installed on the same drive and also have allocated the rest of the disk to be a fat32 partition. I know I should put any data I want to be passed between the two on the fat32 partition.

Re: looking for ideas: creating a data partition for a dual boot system

2007-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:33:20PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 04:19:14PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 2. Share the same Desktop folder (I think if #1 is solved this is automatic) Maybe, but the Desktop