From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 19 19:04:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA27844 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 19:04:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA27833 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 19:04:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA27426; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 21:26:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199807200126.VAA27426@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: FAT32 ?? In-Reply-To: <35B24C6E.746AA387@total.net> from Dave Hoppe at "Jul 19, 98 03:43:45 pm" To: datadave@total.net (Dave Hoppe) Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 21:26:30 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dave Hoppe wrote: > To whom exactly it may concern ? :> > I have a diskette with FAT32 on it ,ready to install. This > being my first problem. I have a Pentium 133 16EDO RAM, utilizing FAT > 16??, not FAT32. I WANT to install FAT32, but ofcourse I do not have any > knowledge on wether or not ,one can just go into DOS & install from > there or wehter it is even a safe situation to bother installing FAT32 ? > I think you want to talk to a Windoze mailing list. BSD uses the UFS/FFS (Unix File System/Fast File System), which is unrelated to FAT anything. All I know is that FAT 32 is one of the alleged improvements in Windoze 98. No matter how you cut it, though, M$ FAT is still a floppy disk file system used on hard drives. It will never give adequate performance except for interactive single-user applications. W-NT has already abandoned FAT-XX. BSD can currently read and write FAT16, and may handle FAT32 in future, but it's not for serious use under BSD. [BSD is a non-M$ related operating system, not a Windoze program.] Dave -- Sancho Panza: `Microsoft Windows NT Server is the most secure network operating system available.' Don Quixote: `You are mistaken, Sancho.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message