Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 13:53:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, jflowers@ezo.net, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from NT ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809241350530.16192-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980923215841.10736C-100000@calvin.saturn-tech.com>
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On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Doug Russell wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > You can BOOT FreeBSD (via NTLDR) off an NTFS parition. FreeBSD can't read > > > the NTFS filesystem, of course (yet!), but you can boot. I don't think > .. > > Actually, there is a R/O NTFS module for FreeBSD. See the list > > archives. > > Nifty! Sometime I MUST start a page of "Neat things for FreeBSD that you > probably never new existed" for all these things I keep discovering! > > Later...... <Doug> > It would be ultra-nifty if one could write to NTFS partitions, and even create/format them. I could see possiblities of using this on a PicoBSD floppy to rebuild dead NT workstations, much like what I'm going to try to do for Win95 on FAT16 (I'll consider FAT32 as nonexistent.. it sucks). :-) -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net /* FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and compatibles (SPARC and Alpha under development) (http://www.freebsd.org) */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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