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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!usc!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hp-cv!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!engr.orst.edu!news.orst.edu!news.uidaho.edu!usenet From: Faried Nawaz <fn@uidaho.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD newbie questions.... Date: 20 Nov 1995 05:43:27 -0800 Organization: People's Front Against WWW Lines: 44 Sender: nawaz921@waldrog.cs.uidaho.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <img2fjo0zk.fsf@waldrog.cs.uidaho.edu> References: <1995Nov9.041305.16191@oasis.enmu.edu> Reply-To: fn@uidaho.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: waldrog.cs.uidaho.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: burnettn@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN's message of Thu, 9 Nov 1995 04:13:05 GMT In article <1995Nov9.041305.16191@oasis.enmu.edu> burnettn@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN (Nathan C. Burnett) writes: $ What filesystems does FreeBSD support? $ Does it support the Linux Second Extended? it's in freebsd-current; not in any release you can install right now. $ Does it support OS/2 HPFS? not in any release you can install right now. $ What is it's 'native' filesystem type? ufs or the bsd ffs (fast filesystem). it also supports msdosfs, nfs, iso9660 (cdroms), mfs (memory fs). there are a few other 4.4bsd-specific filesystems (kernfs, procfs, portalfs, etc) that are supported (though not all work very well). $ I know the anwaser to this is probably know but... $ Can FreeBSD run Linux binaries (ELF or a.out)? (most?) linux ZMAGIC a.out executables. it can't do svga stuff. $ How much space to I need for a FreeBSD installation including compilers and $ XFree86? hmm. i'm guessing 100mb. $ Does FreeBSD have to be on the first partition of the first hard disk? no. $ The partition I have open is the second one on the first disk. i don't know how dos/bioses/boot managers handle that. may work for you. if all else fails, you should (i think!) be able to boot off a floppy disk and have it run off that partition.