From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 15 18:40:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF8A737B55C for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 18:40:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from sol.cs.binghamton.edu (sol.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.123.100]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA18868; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:40:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:38:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: Dan Nelson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copy files win98<->freebsd on same machine In-Reply-To: <20000715203245.B19101@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Great! If it does NOT support big file FAT32 (not FAT16), please tell me! The reason I am doing this is that the "direct cable connection" between Windows 98 drive me crazy, I decide to use IP over parallel cable in FreeBSD. On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jul 15), Zhihui Zhang said: > > > > I have a box installed with both windows98 and freebsd4.0. Can I read and > > write files in windows98 with mount_msdos utility from freebsd safely? I > > do not want to risk the danger of damaging my windows98 paritition. If > > possible, I want to access both C and D drive of windows98. > > You certainly can. In fact, I have moved my win98 partition to a > completely new drive by mounting the old and new disks and doing a > "tar|tar" to copy the data over, and had no problems at all (I've done > it twice actually). > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message