Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 11:39:09 +0100 From: Angus Barrow <angus@aggyb.homeunix.net> To: Daniel Finnimore <dan@datanvoice.co.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Storage on FBSD Message-ID: <1123238349.11605.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <000801c599a4$94e5edb0$0a01a8c0@menicom1> References: <000801c599a4$94e5edb0$0a01a8c0@menicom1>
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It is indeed possible to have FreeBSD read from a FAT formatted drive however this is not necessary if you will be sharing the files via a network connection. If you are sharing files to windows machines then it is easier to have the files to be shared on a UFS formatted partition and to use SAMBA to share the files. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-samba.html. On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 11:00 +0100, Daniel Finnimore wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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