From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 5 10:01:12 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5FDF16A41F for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 10:01:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@datanvoice.co.uk) Received: from moutvdomng.kundenserver.de (moutvdom.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E4A943D45 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 10:01:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@datanvoice.co.uk) Received: from [212.227.126.224] (helo=mrvdomng.kundenserver.de) by moutvdomng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1E0z0p-0007gc-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2005 12:01:11 +0200 Received: from [80.225.7.99] (helo=menicom1) by mrvdomng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1E0z0n-0004em-00 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2005 12:01:10 +0200 Received: from 127.0.0.1 (AVG SMTP 7.0.308 [266.8.5]); Fri, 05 Aug 2005 11:01:00 +0100 Message-ID: <000801c599a4$94e5edb0$0a01a8c0@menicom1> From: "Daniel Finnimore" To: Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 11:00:59 +0100 Organization: Menicom Ltd MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Storage on FBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Finnimore List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 10:01:12 -0000 Like many people in the it business, I am sure, I have lots of old kit = around and am using one P3 with ide drive to run FBSD 4.7 for my shared = internet access on 64K dialup ppp. With sco unix I can format a drive using dos and then use that section = of the drive as as network drive for storage, files etc. Can I do this = with FBSD. Ideally an old intel P3 with 4 ide drives one partitioned = with FBSD the others all FAT 32. What do you think. Dan