You can put a larger hard drive into the machine, as long as you make the root/boot partition under the first two gigs. although your bios doesn't support large hard-drives, freebsd does. as far as i can tell, freebsd just doesnt get the hard drive info from teh bios. i had a 40 gig hard drive in an old compaq 166mhz pentium mmx. never had a problem with it. you can also mount the ntfs partitions via samba or nfs, whichever you would rather use. when you share a filesystem over the network, to my understanding, file permissions are handled via smb or nfs protocol, of which both freebsd windows can share.
--mat --mat On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 13:45, Adam Lofstedt wrote: > Hi (Please CC any responses to me, as I get the digest version) > > Right now my FBSD firewall box is also my lightly-used ftp server with > chrooted ftp users. An old machine (P133, 1.8 G Hard Drive) just got > freed up, and I would like to move the ftp services over to that old > thing. The problem is the Hard Disk is real small, and the board won't > support a larger one. I do have plenty of space on several windows > machines (NTFS) partitions, and was wondering if I could just mount an > NTFS network partition on the FTP box, and store the User's Home > directories on that Partition. Do you see anything wrong with this > approach? How are permissions handled (a mix of NTFS and UNIX > permissions?)? Can you even mount a networked windows drive in FBSD > (using Samba I guess)? > > Thanks for any advice! > > Adam > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
