Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 01:55:10 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: Murray Stokely <murray@cdrom.com> Cc: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@freebie.dcfinc.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Win95 file system Message-ID: <199710210855.BAA00715@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 20 Oct 97 22:15:34 -0700. <Pine.NEB.3.96.971020221154.16637C-100000@pooh.cdrom.com>
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> FreeBSD can't handle FAT32. So when you are installing Windows 95,
>if it asks you if you'd like special support for partitions over 2
>gigs (fat32) choose NO. It should handle normal windows 95 partitions
>just fine though. I believe it shows long filenames with their 8.3
>counterparts (filena~1.ext) but I may be wrong. This sounds like a
>question for -questions ;)
For what it's worth, if FreeBSD's msdosfs doesn't currently handle
long filenames, I know that NetBSD's does. It might be worth pulling
over...
>On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Chad R. Larson wrote:
>% If I build a dual-boot system (Win95 and FreeBSD), will I be able to
>% manipulate the Messy-DOS partition from within FreeBSD? That is, does
>% the "msdos" filesystem type support long file names and extended
>% attributes?
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