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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!col.hp.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Please help with upgrade-questions to FBSD-2.1 Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 2 Oct 1995 23:22:23 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 33 Message-ID: <44pomv$rta@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <44mlvi$1jf@news.rz.uni-passau.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Keywords: FreeBSD-2.1(RELEASE), upgrade-questions Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:7036 comp.unix.bsd.misc:258 comp.unix.bsd:16722 Darius Moos <moos@fmi.uni-passau.de> wrote: >I want to upgrade to FreeBSD-2.1 when it is released and i have some questions >about it's capabilities: > -Does FreeBSD support PCI ? Of course. > -Does FreeBSD support Plug&Play ? Only plague & pray. :-) > -Does FreeBSD support SCSI-harddisks of sizes greater 1 GB ? Of course. > -Does FreeBSD support partition-mounting of Win95 partitions with the > extended attributes ? Of course, not. > -Does FreeBSD support ZIP-drives and which device is to be used with Of course. > this drives ? /dev/[r]sd<whatever has been assigned during boot> -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)