*BSD News Article 54155


Return to BSD News archive

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