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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 1997 11:09:32 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        gumism@hg.uleth.ca
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Newbie:  Install question
Message-ID:  <199702240039.LAA03378@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <3310CBB7.2EF5@hg.uleth.ca> from Scott Guminy at "Feb 23, 97 03:59:03 pm"

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Scott Guminy stands accused of saying:
> 
> Is it possible to install FreeBSD on top of a MS-DOS (Win95 -- not
> FAT32) filesystem without creating a separate partition?  I've done this
> with the slackware distribution of Linux using the UMSDOS install.

No.  Whilst it might be marginally useful, the performance of such a
filesystem would be so apalling that there aren't any FreeBSD hackers
that feel that it's worth the effort.

> Scott

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