[ale] free bsd vs. linux

[Chris Fowler]

I've been researching on using BSD in an embedded capacity as
I use Linux.  One thig that I feel severly limits FreeBSD to this
role is the lack of an initrd.  Some don't use it, some do.  I use
it to place a fs image into /dev/ramdisk and mount that as root.

FBSD supports ramfs as mfs but I see no way of telling te FBSD kernel
that a ram disk is its root.  Maybe so in the future.

One question has to be asked.  *BSD has been around since Linux 0.1.  
Why did it not take off like Linux?  Plus the BSD license allows a more
liberal use of the software that does not match RMS's views.  It would
seem that *BSD in those aspects should be a better target for people
wishing to make money off stuff they get for free.

Chris

On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 22:16, Joe wrote:
> Kenneth W Cochran <kwc at world.std.com> writes:
> 
> > >Subject: Re: [ale] free bsd vs. linux
> > >From: Robert Heaven <robertheaven at earthlink.net>
> > >To: ALE <ale at ale.org>
> > >Date: 15 Mar 2003 15:08:31 -0500
> > >
> > >No, I have never dual-booted a BSD box.
> > 
> > I triple-boot BSD, Linux, & MS-DOS; have for years, with LILO.
> > BSD's install can be made to not clobber anything.
> > Just get Linux booted, configure LILO to "see" BSD and
> > all should be fine.  I don't know if BSD's bootmanager
> > can do Linux, but as a guess, I "think" it would just
> > bring up Linux's bootmanager, i.e. LILO or GRUB.
> 
> The problem I have is that when I run the FreeBSD installer, it doesn't
> see any of the existing disk partitions. The only choices I have are,
> "Use the whole disk for BSD" or "Create a new slice" in the allegedly
> unused portion of the disk (which actually has been completely
> partitioned already by fdisk under Linux).
> 
> I thought maybe setting one of the existing partitions to the "BSD"
> type would help, but there are a bunch of BSD-related partition types
> in fdisk, and I don't know which one to use.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- Joe Knapka
> 
> 
> > -kc
> > 
> > >On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 23:08, Joe wrote:
> > >    Robert Heaven <robertheaven at earthlink.net> writes:
> > >    
> > >    > I work with FreeBSD all day at work and use Linux at home for my
> > >    > personal PC...
> > >    
> > >    Have you ever set up a box to dual-boot *BSD and Linux? I'm
> > >    having trouble getting that to work. I've got Gentoo and
> > >    Slack on the box already, but the BSD installer insists
> > >    on sucking up the entire disk for itself.
> > >    
> > >    -- Joe Knapka
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