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Date:      Wed, 1 Nov 1995 21:58:32 +0000 ()
From:      Carlos Amengual <amengual@sadeya.cesca.es>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        a.mondini@agora.stm.it, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBsd 2.0.5 installation with Windows 95
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.951101214620.16458A-100000@blanco.sadeya.cesca.es>
In-Reply-To: <199511011810.LAA15647@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Wed, 1 Nov 1995, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Installing FreeBSD onto an empty partition of a drive containing a
> Win95 partition as well works fine.  Windows95 does not use a different
> partition ID from DOS, and so it is as safe as installing FreeBSD
> in the same situation with a DOS instead of a Win95 partition.

Independently of this problem with the boot manager, do Win95 partitions
allow to be mounted as dos filesystems under FreeBSD ?  It looks like 
not, as its FAT is the new VFAT, and knowing it for sure would help me
to decide whether to install it on my home PC or not.




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