Two Preinstall Questions

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:03:28PM +0100, Siegbert Baude wrote:
> Hi Ralph,
> 
> >I have two questions before I plunge in and make my first FreeBSD install.
> >Normally I keep a back up copy of all my data in a ReiserFS formated 
> >partion
> >on my hard drive. When I do a Linux Distribution install I will reformat 
> >the
> >non back up partions and then restore my data by copying from the backup
> >partion. Will I be able to do this with my FreeBSD install? Will FreeBSD be
> >able to mount and read write data from this Linux Reiserfs formated 
> >partion?
> 
> FreeBSD can read an write (albeit the latter is marked experimental) 
> from an ext2fs. Reiserfs is not supported at the moment.
> So you would have to change the type of your backup partition.
> 
> 
> >My second question is hardware related. Is the Logitech 4000 Pro USB Web
> >camera supported in FreeBSD?
> 
> Sorry, I can't help you with this one.

The hardware notes contains the documenation about what are officaly
supported. You can find a link to them on the main page. 
http://www.freebsd.org/

-- 
Alex

Articles based on solutions that I use:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/