From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 4 1:36:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D50914F5F for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 01:36:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from charon@freethought.org) Received: from c40948-a ([24.11.129.121]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19990904083545.IVVP21497.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@c40948-a>; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 01:35:45 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990904013546.026f2e70@mail> X-Sender: tuathadedanann@mail X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 01:35:46 -0700 To: Mark Allen Cockrum , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: charon@freethought.org Subject: Re: freebsd/WinNT question.. In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm no expert, but I do run a Win95/NT/FreeBSD computer, so I can answer some of your questions. At 12:50 AM 9/4/99 -0700, Mark Allen Cockrum wrote: >Will FreeBSD 3.2 be able to read NTFS partitions? yes. >How hard is it to move over all my files in FAT to NTFS? Well, you could keep a FAT partition, copy all the files to an NTFS partition, then reformat the FAT partition to NTFS. I don't know if there's a more elegant way to do it... >How hard is it to maintain a FAT file system in WinNT? Not hard at all. You'll never notice what format a partition is, as long as it's _FAT16_. If it's FAT32, that's a no-can-do with NT 4.0. >What programs (generally) from Win95 won't run under WinNT? I think anything that tries to access hardware directly (i.e. not going through the HAL). The only way this affected me is that I couldn't get Partition Magic to run under NT. Also, last I heard DirectX support for NT was pretty shabby, so there are several Win95 games that won't run under NT. Charon@freethought.org http://members.home.net/tuathadedanann/ "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." -Voltaire To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message