From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 16 8: 6:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (pop3.pioneernet.net [208.240.196.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 795BE37BCB6 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 08:06:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org.) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [208.194.173.26] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.03) id A1E3CF560144; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 08:16:51 -0700 Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 08:09:13 PDT From: Chip To: Nick Evans , 'Dan Nelson' , Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RE: Copy files win98<->freebsd on same machine Reply-To: chip@wiegand.org X-Mailer: Spruce 0.6.5 for X11 w/smtpio 0.7.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200007160816448.SM00257@chip.wiegand.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yep, fat32 mounts just the same as fat. Before I removed winblows completely, I was mounted both c: and d: drives automatically by setting them up in fstab. - Chip W. www.wiegand.org Alternative Operating Systems On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Nick Evans wrote: > Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:30:43 -0400 > To: 'Dan Nelson' , > Zhihui Zhang > From: Nick Evans > Subject: RE: Copy files win98<->freebsd on same > machine > > Yeah, but what about FAT32? Is it supported by mount_msdos? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Nelson [mailto:dnelson@emsphone.com] > Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 9:33 PM > To: Zhihui Zhang > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Copy files win98<->freebsd on same machine > > > In the last episode (Jul 15), Zhihui Zhang said: > > > > I have a box installed with both windows98 and freebsd4.0. Can I > read and > > write files in windows98 with mount_msdos utility from freebsd > safely? I > > do not want to risk the danger of damaging my windows98 > paritition. If > > possible, I want to access both C and D drive of windows98. > > You certainly can. In fact, I have moved my win98 partition to a > completely new drive by mounting the old and new disks and doing a > "tar|tar" to copy the data over, and had no problems at all (I've > done > it twice actually). > > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@emsphone.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message