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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).  :-)


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