Re: Partition confusion

2009-06-09 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:27:25PM -0400, Jacob L. Leifman said that > what is provided by Microsoft. In particular, there are a few stable > and open source drivers to allow XP to access Linux ext2/3 filesystems. they are far from stable. maybe read-only. -f -- suicidal twin kills siste

Re: Partition confusion

2009-06-06 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Jacob L. Leifman wrote: > On 6 Jun 2009 at 12:11, Donald Allen wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Lars Nooden wrote: >> > Can't the legacy system be modified to work with FFS or EXT2? >> >> Hi -- >> >> Are you addressing that question to me? If so, I'm real

Re: Partition confusion

2009-06-06 Thread Jacob L. Leifman
On 6 Jun 2009 at 12:11, Donald Allen wrote: > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Lars Nooden wrote: > > Can't the legacy system be modified to work with FFS or EXT2? > > Hi -- > > Are you addressing that question to me? If so, I'm really not sure I > understand your question. What do you mean by "

Re: Partition confusion

2009-06-06 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Lars Nooden wrote: > Can't the legacy system be modified to work with FFS or EXT2? Hi -- Are you addressing that question to me? If so, I'm really not sure I understand your question. What do you mean by "the legacy system"? If so, are you suggesting that perhaps

Re: Partition confusion

2009-06-06 Thread Lars Nooden
Can't the legacy system be modified to work with FFS or EXT2? -Lars

Re: Partition confusion

2009-06-06 Thread Donald Allen
Thank you all for the clearing this up for me. The presence of mount_ntfs suggested to me that ntfs was supported, but apparently not. I'll either work around this with two machines and pscp on the Windows side, or build a kernel with ntfs support enabled. Thanks again -- /Don Allen On Sat, Jun

Re: Partition confusion

2009-06-06 Thread Owain Ainsworth
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 09:10:28AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: > I've got OpenBSD 4.5 installed on a Thinkpad X61, dual-booted with > Windows XP. XP is at the beginning of the disk, starting at sector 63. > The XP slice, to use BSD terminology, is about 10 Gb (the disk is 100 > Gb). The OpenBSD slic

Partition confusion

2009-06-06 Thread Donald Allen
I've got OpenBSD 4.5 installed on a Thinkpad X61, dual-booted with Windows XP. XP is at the beginning of the disk, starting at sector 63. The XP slice, to use BSD terminology, is about 10 Gb (the disk is 100 Gb). The OpenBSD slice occupies the rest of the disk. During the OpenBSD install, I created