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Date:      Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:38:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Copy files win98<->freebsd on same machine
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0007152135140.9378-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000715203245.B19101@dan.emsphone.com>

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Great!  If it does NOT support big file FAT32 (not FAT16), please tell me!  
The reason I am doing this is that the "direct cable connection" between
Windows 98 drive me crazy, I decide to use IP over parallel cable in
FreeBSD.

On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Dan Nelson wrote:

> 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).
> 



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