From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 13:48:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA13150 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 13:48:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line6.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.155]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA13143 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 13:48:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA00232; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 13:48:38 -0800 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 13:48:37 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Binh Do cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD be visible from Win95? In-Reply-To: <9601021105.ZM6708@columbia.cs.ubc.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. No. Windows 95 does not support the Unix filesystem. > 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? That would not be a good idea, since the msdosfs code is so old. Writing runs the risk of corrupting your FAT. Besides, Windows 95 does not like anything messing with the FAT and not the VFAT. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major