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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!pipex!bnr.co.uk!uknet!cf-cm!isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk!paul From: paul@isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Subject: Re: Info on NetBSD & FreeBSD Message-ID: <1994Aug1.112657.26324@cm.cf.ac.uk> Keywords: NetBSD, FreeBSD Sender: paul@isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Organization: ELSYM, University of Wales, College of Cardiff, UK. References: <30ur2j$ege@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> <michaelv.775127085@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 11:26:55 +0000 Lines: 35 In article <michaelv.775127085@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>, Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@iastate.edu> wrote: >In <30ur2j$ege@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> gabara@peanuts.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.DE (Andrej Gabara) writes: > >>(5) When are FreeBSD 2.0 and NetBSD 1.0 coming out? > >NetBSD-1.0 was scheduled for release end of July/beginning of August, >last I heard. I can't get any more specific since I'm not a core >member. > >FreeBSD-2.0 will be some time in coming (since 1.1.5 was just >released). FreeBSD-2.0 will be released in September, probably more towards the end than the beginning. > >>(6) Do FreeBSD or NetBSD support a MSDOS filesystem such as Linux? > >Yes, they both do. Though I've been told it's not quite as simple to >set up as the Linux version, since it uses BSD partitioning on top of >the drive, with DOS underneath, where Linux works inside DOS partions. >Once you get it setup, though, it's just like mounting and using a >unix filesystem, except for the limitations on filenames and file >links, and things like that. If your disk already has a MSDOS parition on it then FreeBSD will find it during installation and ask you if you want to access it from FreeBSD. The installation will then take care of all the partition creation, it's totally transparent to the user. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Intelligent Systems Laboratory, ELSYM ,University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK