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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!europa.clark.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!pacbell.com!usenet From: "David B. Small" <dbsmall@ttl.pactel.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Dell Pentium II, EIDE HD, NTFS, Linux-Compatibility Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 08:10:50 -0700 Organization: Telesis Technologies Laboratory Lines: 38 Message-ID: <338461F9.1814F4BF@ttl.pactel.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dbsmall.ttl.pactel.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b4 [en] (Win95; I) To: dbsmall@ttl.pactel.com X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41432 I'll be buying a computer next month. I know I have to run NT (because I have to run MS Office, and I'm unwilling to run W95) In the past, I had a 486 running Linux, but I've decided to switch to FreeBSD (I'm generally more comfortable with BSD) on a second partition. Before I 'take the plunge', I thought I'd ask the newsgroup some questions: 1) I'm considering a Dell Pentium II/266. (I really *was* going to build a K6/200, and save some money, until I realized I couldn't actually save money by building it myself) Does anyone have any experience running FreeBSD on Dell Pentium IIs? Good/Bad/Comments? 2) I can get a pretty fast 6.4Gig EIDE hard Drive with the Dell (or I can spend the bucks to get a SCSI setup). I know FreeBSD supports IDE hard drives, but what about EIDE? Will it work, or do I need to go SCSI? 3) NTFS. If I run NT Workstation, I can install either on NTFS or FAT-32. When I ran Linux, I was able to mount FAT partitions under Linux. Is it possible to mount NTFS partitions under FreeBSD? (There are some performance disadvantages to NTFS, I understand... but it *does* give you better access control) 4) Since FreeBSD has the ability to run Linux Binaries (right?), does that mean I can use the newly developed JDK 1.1 for Linux on FreeBSD? (Realistically, my FreeBSD partition will be used for development, mostly) Please followup to the group (unless I've asked *really* stupid questions, in which case you may humble me privately)---I'll bet I'm not the only one who wants to know these answers (and I didn't find them in the FAQ). -David