From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 16:49:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA26183 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 16:49:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA26177 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 16:49:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id QAA13052 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 16:49:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA01117; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 16:43:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 16:43:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Brian King cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD questions In-Reply-To: <0002D54C.3152@symantec.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Brian King wrote: > I've been using Linux for some time now, and have just recently > install WGS Linux Pro 4.0, which is based on RedHat 3.0.3. I'm very > impressed with the RedHat Package Management System. FreeBSD appears > to support LBA mode hard drives now, which was a hinderence for me in > the past. This brings me to two questions: > > 1. Does FreeBSD, v2.1.5 or v2.2-SNAPSHOT, support LBA mode? Why would you need such a mode? The only thing it's good for is sector translation for booting; once it's done that then FreeBSD has no need for any sector translation since it talks directly with the controller. I have my disks on LBA mode and they work fine on my P90 w/o any special support from FreeBSD. > 2. Do you have plans on implementing some kind of package management > system, such as RedHat, Debian, or a proprietary system? What's wrong with the pkg_add system? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major