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Date:      Thu, 24 Sep 1998 13:11:24 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
Cc:        Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, jflowers@ezo.net, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Booting from NT ? 
Message-ID:  <199809242011.NAA00475@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Sep 1998 13:53:35 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809241350530.16192-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> 

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> 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).  :-)

Don't do that; we can create and initialise fat32 filesystems, and 
you'll find a lot of them on Win9x systems.  See the manpage for 
newfs_msdos(8).

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