Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 13:58:02 +0200 (MESZ) From: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> To: tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu (Benjamin Tomhave) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NT ported: take 2 Message-ID: <199606141158.AA023823483@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.92.960613173543.7837A-100000@martin.luther.edu> from "Benjamin Tomhave" at Jun 13, 96 05:40:40 pm
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In his e-mail Benjamin Tomhave wrote: > I apparently did not ask my question correctly. I am running Windows NT > 3.51 Workstation. The file system is NTFS. I am fully aware that FreeBSD > and NetBSD are independent operating systems. Duh! Seeing as I'm running > FreeBSD on a machine already and am an administrator on several other > machines, I think I would know that. What my question was is whether or > not tere are any utils. similar to fips which will allow a non-destructive > partitioning of a harddrive w/ NTFS on it and then also I wanted to know > if anybody has had success porting an NTFS partition. I realize that the > second questions is probably yes as both Free and Net BSD simply install > their own file systems over it. However, does the boot manager allow a > choice of booting to WinNT (I know you can boot into DOS/Windows)? These > are the questions I meant to ask. Next time I will make a better effort > to accurately articulate my question. As far as re-partitioning is concerned, I think I have seen some commercial tools that are capable of it. I do not think you will find something free, NTFS being proprietary and all. Dual booting with booteasy or os-bs should be possible. Hope this helps. /Marino > > -ben > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | > Benjamin Tomhave | Shell to DOS...Come in DOS...Do you Copy? > Luther College | > Decorah, IA 52101 | $ rm * .* "Hey, where'd everything go? > tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu | > | > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >
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