Quick Install Question

[Gerard Seibert]

On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:42:54 PM
"Andrew L. Gould" <algould at datawok.com>
Subject: Re: Quick Install Question
Wrote these words of wisdom:

> > 
> 
> Is the WinXP partition in the same computer that is running FreeBSD? Or
> is the NTFS partition a shared directory on a separate WinXP computer?
> (I was not aware that Samba could be used to read NTFS partitions
> residing on a FreeBSD computer.)
> 
> The original poster wishes to dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD on the same
> computer.
> 
> Andrew Gould


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On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied:

Actually, there are three computers. One is running FreeBSD 5.4 and the
other two have WinXP Pro installed. I networked all three together. The
WinXP systems are using the NTFS format. Samba can read and write to
both of the WinXP machines without any problems.

I really do not know if this is germane to a dual boot system however.
It probably is not since WinXP would not actually be running when
FreeBSD was in this type of configuration.

Fat32 is really a poor file system when compared to NTFS. It is too bad
that he is unable to get a second machine and use FreeBSD on it instead
of dual booting.

Just my 2¢.

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Gerard Seibert
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