Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 12:58:23 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Steve McCarron <smccarro@pop500.gsfc.nasa.gov> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD File Systems Message-ID: <20000527125823.D30853@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000526221737.00c62f00@pop500.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <4.3.1.2.20000526221737.00c62f00@pop500.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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On Friday, 26 May 2000 at 22:30:46 -0400, Steve McCarron wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone give me very brief answers to the following two (2) questions: > > (1) Can FreeBSD be installed using all FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, and Linux > Ext2 file systems? You can't use Microsoft file systems, because they don't have the required functionality. I believe it might be possible to install on ext2fs, but it's not supported by the installer, and I can't imagine why you would want to. > (2) Is FreeBSD more like Unix or Linux? FreeBSD is a direct descendent of UNIX. It's very much like, say, SunOS 4. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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