From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 27 11:56:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AE7837B6AA for ; Sat, 27 May 2000 11:56:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@nwlink.com) Received: from ip225.r15.d.bel.nwlink.com (ip225.r15.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.175.225]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA09350; Sat, 27 May 2000 11:56:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 11:39:49 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcw@server.highperformance.net Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Steve McCarron Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD File Systems In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000526221737.00c62f00@pop500.gsfc.nasa.gov> 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 Fri, 26 May 2000, Steve McCarron wrote: >Can anyone give me very brief answers to the following two (2) questions: > > (1) Can FreeBSD be installed using all FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, and Linux >Ext2 file systems? From /sys/i386/conf/LINT options MSDOSFS #MS DOS File System options NTFS #NT File System options EXT2FS I think, but am not sure that msdosfs supports fat16 and fat32. The LINT file is a good resource for this info. > (2) Is FreeBSD more like Unix or Linux? FreeBSD comes directly from 4.4 BSD Unix. Linux does not have this genealogy. Generally speaking many folks consider FreeBSD to be closer to Unix. I say FreeBSD _is_ unix (lower case u) but be careful with that pesky trademark issue that TOG put on Unix (upper case U). The distinction is one of terminology. Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells/ Jason Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message