I already run FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, MacOS, Windows, Solaris, SCO,
Linux/ppc and Linux/x86 at home, so learning really isn't the problem, I
just can't decide what OS I want to run here at work, so I run all three,
just haven't ever used NetBSD/i386, try to avoid x86 hardware at all costs,
hence the questions to this list  =]   x86 is NOT my strong suit.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
To: "sfalken" <sfalkenx@hotmail.com>
Cc: <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Multiple Boot setup for XP


> >
> > Hey there folks, just curious, has anybody come up with (or does there
already exist a bootloader?) that will work with WinXP?  I've got
NetBSD-1.5.2, XP, and Slackware 8.0 on this machine, and it's getting a
little old using bootdisks to get at Linux or nBSD, and so far, I've had NO
luck getting a bootloader setup.
>
> does having 2 unices and 3 OS total at once make really sense? will you
> really learn all three?
>
> > And as an aside, is there a way to pass an argument to the kernel to get
different console sizes?  with lilo and linux, I just pass vga=ask or vga=x
to the kernel from the boot prompt, and it gives me different resolutions to
choose from, I just find 80x24 to be really annoying.
>
> man wsconscfg (-t option). unfortunately you haven't as many choices as in
> linux. and i don't know if it can be done through wscons.conf autoconfig
> mechanism (never looked at it).
>
> it you have winXP booting you must have very powerful machine, so
> running X, well configured win-manager and many Xterms (with any font size
you like)
> the best solution
>
>