Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 11:57:30 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Duck Dogers <Shepard@cris.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: File Allocation Tables Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980103115029.7064K-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <34AE5796.CB72F052@cris.com>
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On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Duck Dogers wrote: > Will Free BSD work on a FAT32 system? If not naturally can the > image program written for unix work for Free BSD as well? Thank you for > any reply. -N.S. Understand that FreeBSD is an operating system, in a class of programs like Windows NT or OS/2. It does it's own formatting of partitions. It doesn't operate under some other OS ... as an example, does Windows 95 operate under OS/2? No, they install separately, in their own partitions, as does FreeBSD. The formatting FreeBSD does on it's partitions, BTW, doesn't even remotely resemble FAT32. Maybe you were asking if FreeBSD can access data on your FAT32 partitions? It has always been able to access the FAT16 partitions, but until very recently, it couldn't access the FAT32 ones. Some recent work in FreeBSD-current has gotten some level of compatibility with FAT32 partitions (I don't know exactly how much) but that code is very new, and certainly not available on any release version of FreeBSD yet. I hope that answered your question ... > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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