Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 07:16:27 +0100 From: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> To: MJDLUGOS@aol.com, "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CD-RW, disks access Message-ID: <3A8E173B.2B4C911@gmx.de> References: <a2.103a81b4.27bf2e1e@aol.com>
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Hi Mark, please don´t throw out the list in future questions. There is nobody, who is able to answer all questions. ;-) > Not in a way I thought. I have two hard disks system one with NTFS file > system for MS Windows and second for FreeBSD. I decided it would make my > FreeBSD adventure less painful, at least at the begining :) I have also > WinModem in the system :( so I do not have internet access from FreeBSD (I am > gonna buy a real modem soon). There is the story. I downloaded new release of > the XFree86 (under MSWindows) and I wanted to install it. The easiest way, I > thought, would be using CDRW (to write CDRW disk under MSWIndows and to read > it under FreeBSD). Unfortunately there is no common CD format which makes it > possible. Now I am thinking about common FAT32 partition as a kind of > interface between these two OSs. I have been trying to find out the way of > creating such a partition without using fdisk which would force me to > reinstall one of the systems (I am not sure if it is possible). I hope you > did not get bored too much, but the fact that there are people who are ready > and willing to help you with the FreeBSD makes me feel much more brave. Thank > you. There is a common CD file system: iso9660. All today´s OS, I know of, can read it. You can write it also with NT, I´m sure. Just treat your CD-RW as normal CD-R, that is: deny any questions for formatting your CD-RW, which might pop up. This would prepare the disk for the UDF format. A already used RW must be erased before you can write it with iso9660 again. Second, IMHO a common FAT partition is a good idea for file sharing. Use "partition magic" to shrink your NTFS-partition, so there will be no need to reinstall. Third, there is support for NTFS (at least reading should work) in FreeBSD. I´m not sure, if you need to recompile your kernel to get things started (you should look in http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html for this), or if it will work out of the box. Look if /sbin/mount_ntfs exists on your system. Did you try to mount your NTFS partition (btw, in Unix you would call this a slice, not partition)? Something like: mount -r -t ntfs /dev/<your_ntfs_partition> /mnt/<your_desired_mount_point> Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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