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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!worldnet.att.net!news.dra.com!netaxs.com!grr From: grr@shandakor.tharsis.com (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc Subject: Re: Other file system support Date: 14 Mar 1997 04:51:18 GMT Organization: George's Pet Unix System Lines: 17 Message-ID: <slrn5ihm7o.a2.grr@robbins.jvnc.net> References: <33250405.308330966@news.pacbell.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: robbins.jvnc.net X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.1.1 BETA UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc:16 In article <33250405.308330966@news.pacbell.net>, Frank A Busalacchi jr wrote: > If OpenBSD is installed on a i386 System that has DOS, & NT >installed also, is OpenBSD capable of read/write the NT and DOS >partitions/drives located in the system? Plain DOS partitions, apparently yes, NT apparently no, although from the man page, it looks like there is some support for whatever filename notions that Win95 cooked up. You may want to look more closely at FreeBSD/Linux, which expend more energy in the PC architecture direction, one or the other is supposed to have support for dblspaced disks and perhaps the NT filesystem... -- George Robbins - not working for, work: to be avoided at all costs... but still emotionally attached to: web: http://www.netaxs.com/people/grr Commodore, Engineering Department domain: grr@tharsis.com