From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 20 00:45:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA09415 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 00:45:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.my.domain (ppp6501.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.208.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA09404 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 00:45:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA00319; Wed, 20 May 1998 03:43:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 03:43:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@localhost Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: FDameronUT cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and fat32. In-Reply-To: <52a365b8.35624d23@aol.com> 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 [This should have been sent to -questions] On Tue, 19 May 1998, FDameronUT wrote: > I have a PC with Windows95 OSR2 using fat32. I do have a 2 gig partition that > I wish to dedicate to a Unix like OS. My question(s), does freeBSD support > read/write access to fat32 partitions? In -current only. > If not, are there patches and how would I go about installing them since my > other partitions are fat32 and my only internet access is provided through > Windows? It looks like there are patches to add it to -stable. I didn't even know about these patches until today, so you asked your question at just the right time... :-) See http://members.aol.com/hyama99/. I'm not sure why the above isn't in -stable already, or if/when it will go in... -- This .sig is not innovative, witty, or profund. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message