From owner-freebsd-hackers  Thu Sep 24 11:54:20 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA19691
          for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:54:20 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.9])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA19665
          for <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:54:16 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us)
Received: from duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.9])
	by duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA16424;
	Thu, 24 Sep 1998 13:53:36 -0500 (CDT)
	(envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us)
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 13:53:35 -0500 (CDT)
From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
X-Sender: cdillon@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us
To: Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com>
cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, jflowers@ezo.net,
        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Booting from NT ?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980923215841.10736C-100000@calvin.saturn-tech.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809241350530.16192-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Doug Russell wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > > You can BOOT FreeBSD (via NTLDR) off an NTFS parition.  FreeBSD can't read
> > > the NTFS filesystem, of course (yet!), but you can boot.  I don't think
> .. 
> > Actually, there is a R/O NTFS module for FreeBSD.  See the list
> > archives.
> 
> Nifty!  Sometime I MUST start a page of "Neat things for FreeBSD that you
> probably never new existed" for all these things I keep discovering!
> 
> Later......						<Doug>
> 

It would be ultra-nifty if one could write to NTFS partitions, and even
create/format them.  I could see possiblities of using this on a PicoBSD
floppy to rebuild dead NT workstations, much like what I'm going to try
to do for Win95 on FAT16 (I'll consider FAT32 as nonexistent.. it
sucks).  :-)


-- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net
/* FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet.
   For Intel x86 and compatibles (SPARC and Alpha under development)
   (http://www.freebsd.org)                                         */



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message