From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 12 15:02:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25604 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 15:02:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25552 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 15:02:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jer@jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jer@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA04267; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 17:01:55 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 17:01:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner Reply-To: Jeremy Shaffner To: Gary Harris cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FAT32 & FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199806121900.FAA26923@mail.wr.com.au> 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 On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Gary Harris wrote: > > > 1) Can FreeBSD be installed if the Hard disk it is to be installed on is > > of FAT32 format? > > > > Yes but you won't be able to access the FAT32 partition from FreeBSD. Having said that, I believe that > 3.x.x-current has support for it, or it's underway. Anyone? The answer is no (Though the question was not worded well.) FreeBSD is installed on a partition of it's own type. The support that is in 3.0 is for the mounting of existing FAT32 partitions. There is also something available for 2.x but I do not remember the URL for it. A quick search of the -questions archive should turn something up. -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message