From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 28 17:54:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA14287 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:54:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt050n33.san.rr.com [204.210.31.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14224 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:53:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20297; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:53:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <351DA9B1.A969F732@dal.net> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:53:53 -0800 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0325 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rasputin CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NTFS? References: <199803290048.QAA04300@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rasputin wrote: > > Can I install FreeBSD into an NTFS partition or do I have to convert it to > FAT. FreeBSD uses its own partition type. When you do the install it will format the partition for you. It would help you to read all the .TXT documents in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.6-RELEASE. > I am looking to start up a web-hosting business, but only have a > dial-up connection for my current purposes (checking out OS's). Currently, > I'm using NT4.0 and comparing it with some Unix clones (I don't know anyone > who has a Genunie Unix I could test. Oh well). FreeBSD is "genuine unix" for all intents and purposes. The actual use of the word "unix" in a product name is controlled by complicated (and rather silly) liscensing arrangements and has nothing to do with the OS. NT is actually a "real unix" according to the trademark. As far as the comparison goes, on the same hardware FreeBSD will give you better performance by several orders of magnitude than NT. If you're talking heavily loaded systems, Freebsd also outperforms linux by a wide margin. Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message