Re: NTFS with Wine and VMware?
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 10:58:36AM +0100, Alex wrote: > > Dear/Beste David, > > Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 4:39:33 AM, you wrote: > > > If i have a dual boot system of Win2k and FreeBSD at which the Win2k > > is on a NTFS partition will I beable to use Wine and VMWare with this > > win2k? or does the partition have to be FAT or FAT32? > > > Dave > > > There is a NTFS reader, but i think the work on the NTFS writer is > still in progress. You can try NTFS and see if it works for you. The > safe bet would be to use FAT or FAT32. > I installed Win2K on FAT32 exactly so I could access it in Linux and FreeBSD. My email, for example, is stored on Win2k's C: drive. My mail agent is VM in emacs, which stores messages in a platform- independent format. It is equally easy to access my email from whichever OS is booted: Windows, Linux, or (when I solve my irq problem) FreeBSD. Since I'm the only one that uses my machine and it's behind a separate firewall, I don't need the protection NTFS offers. -Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: x question
Check out Cygwin: <http://xfree86.cygwin.com> It's free. Cygwin/XFree86 is a port of XFree86 to the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. ... Cygwin/XFree86 consists of an X Server, Xlib, and nearly all of the standard X clients, such as xterm, xhost, xdpyinfo, xclock, and xeyes. -Ken Jackson Tim Peters writes: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:53:30PM -0800, Hugo Saro wrote: > > Is it possible to 'startx' and view the graphical > > environment from a windows workstation connected to a > > freebsd box? if yes, how? > > Not directly; when you run startx it will run an X server on the > freebsd box and that will only display stuff on a directly connected > monitor.. > > What you need to do is run an X server on the windows machine, then > set the DISPLAY environment variable on the freebsd box to something > like "windowsbox:0.0" (or tunnel it through ssh). The only x server > for windows I know of is eXcursion, but there may be others. > > HTH, > > -tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
