From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 7 8:24:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C685337B401 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 08:24:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.bcpl.net (mail.bcpl.net [204.255.212.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF5F943EC5 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 08:24:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken22@bcpl.net) Received: from abitl.local (ppp240.bcpl.net [207.19.142.254]) by mail.bcpl.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id gB7GOEv10292 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 11:24:17 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: emacs 21.2.1 (via feedmail 8 I); VM 7.07 under Emacs 21.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15858.8555.813126.814858@abitl.local> Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 11:27:23 -0500 From: Ken Jackson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NTFS with Wine and VMware? In-Reply-To: <20021207111424.GA1684@raggedclown.net> References: <3DED78F5.1060304@attbi.com> <1253466124.20021207105836@dds.nl> <20021207111424.GA1684@raggedclown.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 10:58:36AM +0100, Alex wrote: > > Dear/Beste David, > > Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 4:39:33 AM, you wrote: > > > If i have a dual boot system of Win2k and FreeBSD at which the Win2k > > is on a NTFS partition will I beable to use Wine and VMWare with this > > win2k? or does the partition have to be FAT or FAT32? > > > Dave > > > There is a NTFS reader, but i think the work on the NTFS writer is > still in progress. You can try NTFS and see if it works for you. The > safe bet would be to use FAT or FAT32. > I installed Win2K on FAT32 exactly so I could access it in Linux and FreeBSD. My email, for example, is stored on Win2k's C: drive. My mail agent is VM in emacs, which stores messages in a platform- independent format. It is equally easy to access my email from whichever OS is booted: Windows, Linux, or (when I solve my irq problem) FreeBSD. Since I'm the only one that uses my machine and it's behind a separate firewall, I don't need the protection NTFS offers. -Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message