From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 11 16:33:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA29788 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:33:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA29718 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:33:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA23253; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 11:35:47 +1200 (NZST) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA11808; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 11:35:45 +1200 (NZST) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 11:35:44 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Mark M <3dnut@altavista.net> cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FAT32 & FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <358045B4.4CAFA3D6@altavista.net> 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 Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Mark M wrote: > Before I even attempt this, I just have a few questions; I would be very > grateful if anyone could answer these: > > 1) Can FreeBSD be installed if the Hard disk it is to be installed on is > of FAT32 format? You need to use fdisk to allocate a separate partition for FreeBSD. FreeBSD will overwrite any allocated partition with it's own filesystem. > 2) Will I be able to read UNIX formatted diskettes (so I can extract > files eg: with bar xvfZ /dev/rfd0 )? Yup. -- Jonathan Chen -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny" - Ken Hubbard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message