In message <5.1.0.14.0.20020227113825.00aaed08@pop.netzero.net>, Steven Grunza 
writes:
>During my vacation last week the IT folk here modified my PC from WindowsME 
>to Windows 2000 Professional.  My NetBSD partition was probably not touched 
>since it's in the last 1/4 of the drive (first 30GB Win****, last 10GB 
>NetBSD).  I use a MSDOS boot floppy and dosboot.com to boot from the second 
>partition.
>
>I know I'll need to boot to single user mode and change the /etc/fstab 
>entry for the Winblows partition from MS-DOS to something else.  Anyone 
>know what?  I'll read the man pages but my guess is ntfs.
>
>How is the NetBSD support for NT file systems?  Anyone have any experience 
>with it?  Thanks for any help.  Since I don't have the Win2K CDROM if I 
>munge the disk I'll need IT's help to get it back again which is something 
>I really don't want to do....
>
>
>
Check before you do anything -- many Win2k installations (including my 
laptop's) use FAT32.  But I haven't converted that to NTFS because my 
understanding is that win2k's NTFS is enough different that the NetBSD 
support isn't good enough.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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