From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 2 19:07:42 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA06634 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 19:07:42 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA06617 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 19:07:28 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA11005; Fri, 3 Nov 1995 13:37:35 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511030307.NAA11005@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: FreeBsd 2.0.5 installation with Windows 95 To: amengual@sadeya.cesca.es (Carlos Amengual) Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 13:37:35 +1030 (CST) 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 Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1072 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Carlos Amengual stands accused of saying: > > > 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. FAT is FAT. They mount fine, modulo the problems with the MSDOSFS as it stands. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[