Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 11:43:50 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: charon@freethought.org Cc: Mark Allen Cockrum <n9842643@cc.wwu.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd/WinNT question.. Message-ID: <19990904114350.A290@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990904013546.026f2e70@mail>; from charon@freethought.org on Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 01:35:46AM -0700 References: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9909040049200.7100-100000@titan.cc.wwu.edu> <3.0.5.32.19990904013546.026f2e70@mail>
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On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 01:35:46AM -0700, charon@freethought.org wrote: > 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. Caveat; Although the FreeBSD driver is read/write its write capabilities are limited so I would consider it read-only (I mount my NTFS read-only just to be safe). Bear this is mind when planning your partitions. > > >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... > NT can convert FAT->NTFS. I can't remember the name of the prog but I think it is an option in the Properties dialogue of a (FAT) drive. The original message implied that there were only 2 partitions, Win95 and FreeBSD. This sounds like you want to make C: an NTFS partition. I would think very carefully about this. If NT won't boot then booting from a DOS floppy (take it from one who found out the hard way, NT's floppy boot Repair system doesn't always fix things!) you won't be able to access your boot drive. > >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. > http://www.sysinternals.com have a FAT32 driver for NT. They also have a read-only NTFS driver for DOS/Win3.x/Win9x plus an add on that gives limited write access for disaster recovery (e.g. to manually copy the registry backups into place). > >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 -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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