RE: Dynamic Disks & FreeBSD

2003-10-23 Thread Jud
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:35:20 +0300, "Ivailo Tanusheff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [snip] > But still you can revert dynamic disk to basic from Disk administration > utility in Windows 2000/XP. You will want to take an image of the drive(s) or otherwise backup desired apps and data beforehand. In

RE: Dynamic Disks & FreeBSD

2003-10-23 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
AFAIK it's impossible. The problem is that Micro$oft writes their own MBR. Although I think there are some distributions that can mount such drive, you can't boot different OS from this disk (yet). But still you can revert dynamic disk to basic from Disk administration utility in Windows 2000/XP.

Re: Dynamic Disks & FreeBSD

2003-10-22 Thread Brett Rogers
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 08:56 pm, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 22), Stephen said: > > Is it at all possible to use FreeBSD on hard disks that have been > > converted from basic to dynamic? I have two hard drives and have > > used Windows XP Professional to convert both to dyna

Re: Dynamic Disks & FreeBSD

2003-10-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 22), Stephen said: > Is it at all possible to use FreeBSD on hard disks that have been > converted from basic to dynamic? I have two hard drives and have > used Windows XP Professional to convert both to dynamic. I believe the term "dynamic" applies to NTFS filesystems, a