Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 09:58:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> 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: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809250948500.20434-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <199809242011.NAA00475@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > 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 Don't do what? FAT32 sucks, performance-wise. I'd rather lose 20 or 30MB on a humungous drive (disk space is cheap) and have to split it up in "little" 2GB partitions than decrease my overall filesystem performance by at least 50% (at least thats how much slower FAT32 feels when compared to FAT16 on the same box). > you'll find a lot of them on Win9x systems. See the manpage for > newfs_msdos(8). Not MY Win95 systems. All 500+ of our client machines run FAT16. I was originally pondering the niftyness of NTFS read/write support in FreeBSD.. I knew but didn't care that we had FAT32 support. :-) I already _have_ a rather complex process to rebuild dead Win95 boxen (and keep the software I want on them the way I want them). All i need to do now to perfect the process is make a PicoBSD floppy with various NIC drivers, DHCP client, Sharity Light (or some other way to mount an SMB share), and maybe even Perl (I'm probably dreaming there, though I could stick a bunch of utilities on the mounted share, i suppose). Right now I'm just using a MS Client for DOS boot disk to do the job, and its horrid. > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > -- 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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