From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 12 12:45:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA05858 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 12:45:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gate.ljis.ml.org (cyberworld.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA05849 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 12:45:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ljohnston@cyberworld.demon.co.uk) Received: (from ljohnston@localhost) by gate.ljis.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA01522; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 19:45:50 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ljohnston) Message-ID: <19980712194550.A1492@ljis.ml.org> Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 19:45:50 +0100 From: Lee Johnston To: Luke Snelgar , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FAT32 Partitions References: <000301bdad7e$5c0ecbc0$2da626cb@nexus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <000301bdad7e$5c0ecbc0$2da626cb@nexus>; from Luke Snelgar on Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 07:48:00PM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 07:48:00PM +0930, 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. I think the latest versions of FreeBSD support FAT32. I know -current does but I'm not sure about 2.2.6-RELEASE. Lee. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message