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From: ah@alvman.RoBIN.de (Andreas Haakh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Reading FreeBSD partition from DOS/Win.
Date: 28 Nov 1996 10:55:40 GMT
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Anthony Jenkins (ajenkins@auburn.campus.mci.net) wrote:
: [...]
: You're right, in that accessing FreeBSD filesystem resources from
: another OS would be a lot easier if they were located in a separate box,
: but I think there's a need for those of us who have just one box w/
: dual- or multi-OSs and just want to access data from one OS via
: another.  Whether such a project is putting the cart before the horse (I
: can't think of the right cliche) or not, I've seen several posts here
: 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.  'course, like the time I invested in ValueJet stocks, I
: could be wrong ;)

If You just want to exchange data between multiple OSs why don't You
use a DOS/FAT partition. This is the way I used to exchange data between
DOS/Windows OS/2 and FreeBSD. Works just fine...

Andreas
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