From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 14 05:11:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA11652 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 05:11:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy.siemens.at (proxy.siemens.at [192.138.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA11448 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 05:01:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sol1.gud.siemens.co.at (sol-f.gud.siemens-austria) by proxy.siemens.at with SMTP id AA18008 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for ); Fri, 14 Jun 1996 13:58:24 +0200 Received: from ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at by sol1.gud.siemens.co.at with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #7 for ) id m0uUXWD-000211C; Fri, 14 Jun 96 13:58 MET DST Received: by ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at (1.37.109.16/1.37) id AA023823483; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 13:58:03 +0200 From: "Hr.Ladavac" Message-Id: <199606141158.AA023823483@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> Subject: Re: NT ported: take 2 To: tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu (Benjamin Tomhave) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 13:58:02 +0200 (MESZ) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Benjamin Tomhave" at Jun 13, 96 05:40:40 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 | > | > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >