From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 26 20:28:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDC5F37BA32 for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 20:28:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA31352; Sat, 27 May 2000 12:58:23 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 12:58:23 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Steve McCarron Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD File Systems Message-ID: <20000527125823.D30853@freebie.lemis.com> References: <4.3.1.2.20000526221737.00c62f00@pop500.gsfc.nasa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000526221737.00c62f00@pop500.gsfc.nasa.gov> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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