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From: crs@lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Reading FreeBSD partition from DOS/Win.
Date: 28 Nov 1996 04:33:32 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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References: <329AABFC.192@auburn.campus.mci.net> <57hj7g$2pj@anorak.utell.net> <329CACD0.57FE@auburn.campus.mci.net>
Reply-To: crs@hamlet.lanl.gov
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In article <329CACD0.57FE@auburn.campus.mci.net>,
Anthony Jenkins  <ajenkins@auburn.campus.mci.net> wrote:
= 
[...]
= from people running multi-OSs because they already have MS-Win & want
= the UNIX they love without having to buy another machine.  But as far as
= I know, there's currently no implementation whatsoever to tell anything
= about a FreeBSD partition filesystem from another OS on another
= partition.

It seems to me that that is a deficiency of the other operating
system?

FreeBSD can read the filesystem from the other OS.

Am I overlooking something?


-- 
Best,

Charlie "Older than dirt" Sorsby                         "I'm the NRA!"
       crs@swcp.com crs@hamlet.lanl.gov              Life Member since 1965