From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 13:54:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA13502 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 13:54:31 -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 NAA13491 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 13:54:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA00249; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 13:54:44 -0800 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 13:54:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Rogers, Bradley" cc: FreeBSD_Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD and NT In-Reply-To: <9601021730.AA04091@uu10.psi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On 2 Jan 1996, Rogers, Bradley wrote: > 1) Can FreeBSD and Windows NT 3.51 reside on the same machine? Certainly. I have OS/2 (close enough to NT :) ), DOS, and FreeBSD working together here. > 2) If so, are there restrictions on various versions, or do they all work? The only restriction is the number of systems. You still only have 4 slices for stuff. > 3) If so, should I be using the FreeBSD boot manager, or the NT boot manager? I don't run NT so I have no idea :) I remember faintly that the NT bm is not that great. OS/2's Boot Manager is superb. > 4) If so, does FreeBSD have any ability to mount NTFS filesystems? No. > When I subscribed to this list several months ago I seem to recall seeing some > discussion of these questions. Unfortunately I don't remember the responses. You can look in the mail archive on www.freebsd.org. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major