From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 1 14:57:13 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA01788 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 14:57:13 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA01736 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 14:55:19 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA00649; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 15:53:16 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199511012253.PAA00649@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: FreeBsd 2.0.5 installation with Windows 95 To: amengual@sadeya.cesca.es (Carlos Amengual) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 15:53:15 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, a.mondini@agora.stm.it, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Carlos Amengual" at Nov 1, 95 09:58:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1100 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Installing FreeBSD onto an empty partition of a drive containing a > > Win95 partition as well works fine. Windows95 does not use a different > > partition ID from DOS, and so it is as safe as installing FreeBSD > > in the same situation with a DOS instead of a Win95 partition. > > Independently of this problem with the boot manager, do Win95 partitions > allow to be mounted as dos filesystems under FreeBSD ? It looks like > not, as its FAT is the new VFAT, and knowing it for sure would help me > to decide whether to install it on my home PC or not. They mount, but unlike other tools, the BSD msdosfs does not ignore entries with the system+hidden+volume_label bits set, which is the magic incantation. So you get some display garbage until you make a three line change in msdosfs. The non-garbage entries are perfectly usable. Unless you are planning on using VFAT as your default FS, this is "good enough that it isn't a decision breaker". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.