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Date:      Mon, 6 Mar 2000 16:35:43 +1100
From:      "Lachlan O'Dea" <lodea@vet.com.au>
To:        bentley <hbrhodes@mediaone.net>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: want freeBSD, but some questions
Message-ID:  <20000306163542.A10099@vet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <01BF86EC.143CDC80.hbrhodes@mediaone.net>; from hbrhodes@mediaone.net on Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 09:13:21PM -0500
References:  <01BF86EC.143CDC80.hbrhodes@mediaone.net>

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On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 09:13:21PM -0500, bentley wrote:
> I have a pci & a USB network card.  I use win98se for now.  I have for 
> years (or a ver of Win).  I want a change.  Either Linux or FreeBSD.  Is 
> there a NAT program or daemon that will let me put the PCI card in the 
> other small computer (I could build) & use that NAT to share the internet 
> connection?  Or does freeBSD have USB support for the NIC card?  The nic 
> card is a 3c19250.

FreeBSD ships with NAT support. I don't think 3.x supports that NIC,
maybe 4.x will (version 4 is still in development).

> 
> Does FreeBSD use the LINUX NATIVE partioning scheme of formating or is it a 
> different & better one as well?  Will I be able to transfer my DOS 32 files 
> over to it?

FreeBSD's native file system is UFS. However, FreeBSD can read and write
Linux ext2 and DOS FAT32 partitions as well.

> Lastly I have a pci Ultra DMA card that DOS recognizes that Linux wouldn't. 
>  So I wanted to set up my pc as a Server platform & have almost 50-57 gigs 
> of stuff have open for storage, or access...but I couldn't because the 
> spare hard drives aren't recognized.  I have two floppies only one was 
> found.  I have 2 cdroms...only one was found...one of which is a burner.

A "PCI Ultra DMA card"? Do you mean it's ATA66? What model exactly?

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