----- Original Message -----
From: "Bsd Neophyte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 8:08 AM
Subject: physically mounting a FreeBSD drive on a WinXP box

> i don't know if posting this question is relavant to this group...
> but i was wondering if it was possible to physically mount
> a former FreeBSD disk on a winxp box.
>
> i know someone would suggest that i mount the drive on the
> FreeBSD box and get the files i need that way... however, this is
> not an easy process.  it would be alot easier if i could take the
> drive and use something to take the files from my WinXP
> system.


Have you tried VMware? I use it all the time on my XP box, for test
purposes. :) I installed a FreeBSD 4.7R OS on a VMware box, inside XP, that
I can communicate with in all the normal ways, like FTP. VMware will easily
allow you to add a physical drive to the configuration. So, set up something
like FTP within your VMware box, and take the data right off the mounted
drive within the VMware box.

- Mark


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