From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 15 7:42: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from math.udel.edu (math.udel.edu [128.175.16.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3202815292 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 07:42:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from schwenk@math.udel.edu) Received: from math.udel.edu (sisyphus.math.udel.edu [128.175.16.167]) by math.udel.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA15640; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:41:55 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3857B6C3.24325795@math.udel.edu> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:41:55 -0500 From: Peter Schwenk Organization: University of Delaware X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en, fr, de, ko MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dennis Jun Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: To install free BSD on windows NT References: <19991215022528.12134.qmail@web608.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD doesn't have that feature. I would imagine with the variety of ways there are to resize partitions (Partition Magic, fips, etc.) there isn't a burning desire to add something like UMSDOS to the system. I'm not a guru, but I answered anyway. Dennis Jun wrote: > I know when I was working with Slackware Linux, you could run linux off > of UMSDOS (UNIX filesystem on FAT16/32). I'm not sure if the same can be > done with FreeBSD. But if it can, all you would need to do is create an > extra dir for FreeBSD and you wouldn't have to touch the partition. Can > any FreeBSD guru verify if this can be done on FreeBSD? > -- PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message