From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 27 05:45:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA22028 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 05:45:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA21978 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 05:44:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nadav@barcode.co.il) Received: from localhost (nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA13997; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:30:36 +0200 (IST) (envelope-from nadav@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:30:35 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: "Linden, S. van der - Sander" cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: BSD and MS-DOS In-Reply-To: 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 On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Linden, S. van der - Sander wrote: > I have two questions. The first question one of which I personally think > it is not possible, the second question is one that I hope an positive > anwser will come. > > 1. Is it possible to install BSD in a MS-DOS directory instead of a > separate partition ? No. FreeBSD requires its own (non-extended) partition. > > 2. Is it possible when in BSD to access MS-DOS files ? Yes. You can mount FAT volumes under FreeBSD. You can also access DOS files using mtools (in the ports collection). > > The second question is important to me, because I like to use scripts, > but if I cannot read my input, I have a problem. > > I hope you can help me. > > Best regards, > Sander van der Linden > Nadav To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message