From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 21 00:58:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA27842 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 00:58:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from MindBender.serv.net (root@mindbender.serv.net [205.153.153.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA27836 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 00:58:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaelv@MindBender.serv.net) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.8.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA00715; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 01:55:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199710210855.BAA00715@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Murray Stokely cc: "Chad R. Larson" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Win95 file system In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 20 Oct 97 22:15:34 -0700. Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 01:55:10 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net Contract software development for Windows NT, Windows 95 and Unix. Windows NT and Unix server development in C++ and C. --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------