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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD newbie questions.... Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 09:32:55 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 32 Message-ID: <30A23B47.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> References: <1995Nov9.041305.16191@oasis.enmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: "Nathan C. Burnett" <burnettn@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN> Nathan C. Burnett wrote: > What filesystems does FreeBSD support? > Does it support the Linux Second Extended? In FreeBSD-current, yes. None of the release version do yet though. > Does it support OS/2 HPFS? No, it does not. > What is it's 'native' filesystem type? "UFS", also know as FFS (The Berkeley Fast Filesystem). > I know the anwaser to this is probably know but... > Can FreeBSD run Linux binaries (ELF or a.out)? a.out, yes. > How much space to I need for a FreeBSD installation including compilers and > XFree86? I'd recommend 300MB to be comfortable with a good X development setup. > Does FreeBSD have to be on the first partition of the first hard disk? > The partition I have open is the second one on the first disk. It will work fine on the second (or any other) partition. Jordan -- Jordan