Subject: Seeing Windows "extended" partitions
To: None <Rohan.Nicholls@informaat.nl>
From: Gerald C. Simmons <simmons@darykon.cet.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/05/2002 07:26:21
Actually, a company called Bynari (www.bynari.net) makes both an Exchange Client
replacement and an Exchange Server replacement.

I personally have tried their Outlook replacement called Insight (it's free right now!)
and it looks very usable.

Check 'em out!

Gerry


On Thursday, April 4  Rohan Nichols wrote:
> 
> I am a newbie to netbsd, and *nixes in general for that matter.  On the plus side
> the little I have dealt with *nix systems as opposed to windows has strengthened
> my commitment to migrating hopefully permanently, but I have some questions as well.
> 
> My work is run using Windows servers, and the mail and calendar are handled by
> Exchange.  Is there something that can replace outlook client for *nixes, as it
> would be handy to be able to store my mails on the harddrive for off line access,
> and as most of my mails are on the harddrive it would be nice to be able to find
> something that can read the outlook files and convert them to needed formats if
> it is necessary.
> 
> The other question has to do with the hard drive partitioning.  I partitioned the
> harddrive, but all the useful information on the windows side is kept in the
> "extended" partition.  With the NetBSD fdisk, I can see the partition but not into
> it.  Is there a way to see into the partition?  I have read the i386 FAQ's and the
> NetBSD guide (which is excellent, I must add), but there is nothing that I have found
> referring to this problem, or do I need to redo my harddrive and copy all the data
> onto a primary partition?
> 
> I would also like to apologise for sending any html emails before.  I thought it was
> set to plain text, but checked yesterday and this does not seem to be so.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Rohan
>