From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 12:52:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA09693 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 12:52:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from chemserv.umd.edu (chemserv.umd.edu [129.2.64.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA09686 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 12:52:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from latte.eng.umd.edu (latte.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.15]) by chemserv.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.7) with ESMTP id PAA19790; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 15:52:03 -0500 (EST) Received: (chuckr@localhost) by latte.eng.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.6.4) id PAA09215; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 15:52:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 15:51:57 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@latte.eng.umd.edu To: Binh Do cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD be visible from Win95? In-Reply-To: <9601021105.ZM6708@columbia.cs.ubc.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 2 Jan 1996, Binh Do wrote: > As I have both Win95 and FreeBSD and as I specified /win95 as a mount partition > of FreeBSD I can access Win95 from within FreeBSD. But is there any way to view > FreeBSD from within Win95? Thank you for the information. > > PS. One more question. Can I somehow write to /win95 partition from FreeBSD? I > tried to chmod to write but could not? Do I have to specify it during > installation? > Reading from dos partitions seems to be pretty safe, but there is a bug in the msdos filesystem implementation (FreeBSD's implementation) and writing, while it is possible to force it, is a very bad idea. I don't think I'd do it, without an awfully good reason, and a complete backup of the disk involved. > > -- > > Binh Do > Department Of Computer Science > University Of BC, Canada > ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: