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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news1.best.com!news.idiom.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dell Pentium II, EIDE HD, NTFS, Linux-Compatibility Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 13:41:15 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 32 Message-ID: <338600EB.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <338461F9.1814F4BF@ttl.pactel.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: "David B. Small" <dbsmall@ttl.pactel.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41551 David B. Small wrote: > actually save money by building it myself) Does anyone have any > experience running FreeBSD on Dell Pentium IIs? Good/Bad/Comments? Not on the Dells, but a hand-built Pentium II machine is running quite nicely at a local ISP I know. I believe they used the new ASUS motherboard. > 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? It will work with EIDE, but SCSI truly is a better choice if you can afford it. Heck, even if you can't it's still a better choice. :-) > 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? Not yet, I'm afraid. You could mount Linux's ext2fs partitions under FreeBSD, however, if all you're looking for is a way of sharing info with Linux. > 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? I believe so, yes. I haven't tried that specific Linux binary, but I've had excellent luck with many others (like StarOffice and Applixware). -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.