Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 15 Jul 2000 20:32:45 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Copy files win98<->freebsd on same machine
Message-ID:  <20000715203245.B19101@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0007152116320.9378-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>; from "Zhihui Zhang" on Sat Jul 15 21:21:57 GMT 2000
References:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0007152116320.9378-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In the last episode (Jul 15), Zhihui Zhang said:
> 
> I have a box installed with both windows98 and freebsd4.0. Can I read and
> write files in windows98 with mount_msdos utility from freebsd safely? I
> do not want to risk the danger of damaging my windows98 paritition. If
> possible, I want to access both C and D drive of windows98.

You certainly can.  In fact, I have moved my win98 partition to a
completely new drive by mounting the old and new disks and doing a
"tar|tar" to copy the data over, and had no problems at all (I've done
it twice actually).


-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20000715203245.B19101>