Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:18:55 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quick Install Question Message-ID: <20051227141209.A6D8.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <20051227124254.6e3d2301@grokwell.org> References: <20051227131407.BA44.GERARD@seibercom.net> <20051227124254.6e3d2301@grokwell.org>
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On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:42:54 PM "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> Subject: Re: Quick Install Question Wrote these words of wisdom: > > > > Is the WinXP partition in the same computer that is running FreeBSD? Or > is the NTFS partition a shared directory on a separate WinXP computer? > (I was not aware that Samba could be used to read NTFS partitions > residing on a FreeBSD computer.) > > The original poster wishes to dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD on the same > computer. > > Andrew Gould ***** REPLY SEPARATOR ***** On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied: Actually, there are three computers. One is running FreeBSD 5.4 and the other two have WinXP Pro installed. I networked all three together. The WinXP systems are using the NTFS format. Samba can read and write to both of the WinXP machines without any problems. I really do not know if this is germane to a dual boot system however. It probably is not since WinXP would not actually be running when FreeBSD was in this type of configuration. Fat32 is really a poor file system when compared to NTFS. It is too bad that he is unable to get a second machine and use FreeBSD on it instead of dual booting. Just my 2ยข. -- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net famous programmer quotation: "you'veprobable made a mistake"
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