From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 26 04:52:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA25382 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 04:52:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA [132.204.2.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA25371 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 04:52:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA) Received: from epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca (epsom.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.25]) by harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA09589; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 07:52:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from derby.jsp.umontreal.ca (derby.jsp.umontreal.ca [132.204.45.26]) by epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca via ESMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id HAA26911; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 07:52:23 -0400 Received: from localhost (beaupran@localhost) by derby.jsp.umontreal.ca via SMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id HAA13816; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 07:52:23 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: derby.jsp.umontreal.ca: beaupran owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 07:52:22 -0400 (EDT) From: BEAUPRE Antoine To: Bill Scharf cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows 98 FAT32 compatibility In-Reply-To: <000501bde8fc$27bc5ae0$b7a7ad0a@kuntrynet.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 On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Bill Scharf wrote: > Hello, > > I was just wondering if FreeBSD supports Windows 98's FAT32 filesystem. Release 2.2.7, yes. I can mount, read and write to my Windows (95 however) FAT32 partition without problems. > I > tried installing FreeBSD the other day, only to find out that it won't work > with the Fat32 filesystem. Which release did you installed? How did you "find out" that the filesystem wasn't compatible? > Besides purchasing Partition Magic, are there any > free programs that will let me dual-boot between Win98 and Freebsd with a > fat32 filesystem? Yes. I think the default boot manager should do it. If not, the os-bs boot manager will get you what you need. It's the one I currently use to boot FreeBSD 2.2.7 and Windows95 (using FAT32). You can find it at: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/osbs.exe or something like that in the "tools" directory. > Thanks in advance, No problem! +-----------------------------------+ | Free the world from businessmen | | Free yourself from your money | +-----------------------------------+ Free the web. Spidey visit: http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message