It is indeed possible to have FreeBSD read from a FAT formatted drive however this is not necessary if you will be sharing the files via a network connection. If you are sharing files to windows machines then it is easier to have the files to be shared on a UFS formatted partition and to use SAMBA to share the files. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-samba.html.
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 11:00 +0100, Daniel Finnimore wrote: > Like many people in the it business, I am sure, I have lots of old kit around > and am using one P3 with ide drive to run FBSD 4.7 for my shared internet > access on 64K dialup ppp. > > With sco unix I can format a drive using dos and then use that section of the > drive as as network drive for storage, files etc. Can I do this with FBSD. > Ideally an old intel P3 with 4 ide drives one partitioned with FBSD the > others all FAT 32. > > What do you think. > > Dan > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
