Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 15:51:57 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Binh Do <binhdo@cs.ubc.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD be visible from Win95? Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960102154938.8782A-100000@latte.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <9601021105.ZM6708@columbia.cs.ubc.ca>
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On Tue, 2 Jan 1996, Binh Do wrote: > As I have both Win95 and FreeBSD and as I specified /win95 as a mount partition > of FreeBSD I can access Win95 from within FreeBSD. But is there any way to view > FreeBSD from within Win95? Thank you for the information. > > PS. One more question. Can I somehow write to /win95 partition from FreeBSD? I > tried to chmod to write but could not? Do I have to specify it during > installation? > Reading from dos partitions seems to be pretty safe, but there is a bug in the msdos filesystem implementation (FreeBSD's implementation) and writing, while it is possible to force it, is a very bad idea. I don't think I'd do it, without an awfully good reason, and a complete backup of the disk involved. > > -- > > Binh Do > Department Of Computer Science > University Of BC, Canada > ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: <URL:http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/>;
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