From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 5 21:36:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rivendell.mel.vet.com.au (rivendell.mel.vet.com.au [203.103.154.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D344237BC4C for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 21:36:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lodea@vet.com.au) Received: (from lodea@localhost) by rivendell.mel.vet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA10134; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 16:35:44 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 16:35:43 +1100 From: "Lachlan O'Dea" To: bentley Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: want freeBSD, but some questions Message-ID: <20000306163542.A10099@vet.com.au> Mail-Followup-To: bentley , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" References: <01BF86EC.143CDC80.hbrhodes@mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.4i In-Reply-To: <01BF86EC.143CDC80.hbrhodes@mediaone.net>; from hbrhodes@mediaone.net on Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 09:13:21PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? -- Lachlan O'Dea Computer Associates Pty Ltd Webmaster Vet - Anti-Virus Software http://www.vet.com.au/ "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." - Derek Bok To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message