From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 23 16:39:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA13415 for stable-outgoing; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:39:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA13407; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:39:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA03378; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 11:09:33 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702240039.LAA03378@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Newbie: Install question In-Reply-To: <3310CBB7.2EF5@hg.uleth.ca> from Scott Guminy at "Feb 23, 97 03:59:03 pm" To: gumism@hg.uleth.ca Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 11:09:32 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Scott Guminy stands accused of saying: > > Is it possible to install FreeBSD on top of a MS-DOS (Win95 -- not > FAT32) filesystem without creating a separate partition? I've done this > with the slackware distribution of Linux using the UMSDOS install. No. Whilst it might be marginally useful, the performance of such a filesystem would be so apalling that there aren't any FreeBSD hackers that feel that it's worth the effort. > Scott -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[