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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
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Date: 2 Oct 1995 23:22:23 +0100
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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. ;-)