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Date:      Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:41:55 -0500
From:      Peter Schwenk <schwenk@math.udel.edu>
To:        Dennis Jun <dennisjun@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: To install free BSD on windows NT
Message-ID:  <3857B6C3.24325795@math.udel.edu>
References:  <19991215022528.12134.qmail@web608.mail.yahoo.com>

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FreeBSD doesn't have that feature.  I would imagine with the variety of ways
there are to resize partitions (Partition Magic, fips, etc.) there isn't a
burning desire to add something like UMSDOS to the system.  I'm not a guru, but I
answered anyway.

Dennis Jun wrote:

> I know when I was working with Slackware Linux, you could run linux off
> of UMSDOS (UNIX filesystem on FAT16/32). I'm not sure if the same can be
> done with FreeBSD. But if it can, all you would need to do is create an
> extra dir for FreeBSD and you wouldn't have to touch the partition. Can
> any FreeBSD guru verify if this can be done on FreeBSD?
>

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PETER SCHWENK                                    |  UNIX System Administrator
Department of Mathematical Sciences              |  University of Delaware
schwenk@math.udel.edu                            |  (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!!





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