From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 12 04:58:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA20559 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 04:58:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA [132.204.2.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA20554 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 04:58:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA) Received: from epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca (epsom.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.25]) by harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA21591; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 07:58:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from outpost.nada.org (derby.jsp.umontreal.ca [132.204.45.26]) by epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca via SMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id HAA04855; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 07:58:36 -0400 Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 07:59:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Spidey X-Sender: beaupran@outpost.nada.org To: Luke Snelgar cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FAT32 Partitions In-Reply-To: <000301bdad7e$5c0ecbc0$2da626cb@nexus> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Unfortunatly, FreeBSD does not currently support FAT32, but CAN mount FAT16 dos drives and floppies. How is Win98? Does it s**k as hard as Win95? On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Luke Snelgar wrote: > Hello, > I have been thinking of installing another OS apart from Win98 simply to try > and break away from Microsoft OS's and gain some experience with others. > Recently I decided I'd like my other OS to be Unix-like...so I was going to > get Linux, but then I came across FreeBSD while "surfing" the net and > thought I would give it a go. The only problem I am faced with is that my 3 > partitions are FAT32. Windows help tells me that no other operating systems > are compatible with FAT32, but I thought I would ask anyway...is FreeBSD > compatible with FAT32? I used Partition Magic to convert all of my > partitions to FAT32, but I'm unsure whether I can revert any of them > back...I'll probably have to take a look. > Thanks, Luke. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Spidey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message