From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 24 13:08:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02980 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 13:08:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02970 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 13:08:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00475; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 13:11:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199809242011.NAA00475@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Chris Dillon cc: Doug Russell , Terry Lambert , jflowers@ezo.net, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from NT ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 Sep 1998 13:53:35 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 13:11:24 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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). :-) Don't do that; we can create and initialise fat32 filesystems, and you'll find a lot of them on Win9x systems. See the manpage for newfs_msdos(8). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message