Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 14:09:59 -0400 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ricardo_N=FA=F1ez?=" <rinunez@telcel.net.ve> To: "FreeBSD Hackers" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: 504 MB Limit Message-ID: <19970608101105.AAA4908@telcel.telcel.net.ve>
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Dear Gentlemen, I have the following things: - FreeBSD 2.2.1 CD-ROMs - "The Complete FreeBSD" book from Greg Lehey. - A PC Clone with a Triton Motherboard, 24 MB RAM and... - An IDE (EIDE?) disk which has 1280 MB capacity (620 cylinders, 64 heads, 63 sectors) - All the hard disk has a working Windows 95 environment in one partition. I´d like to avoid Greg Lehey´s advice which said (page 30) that I have to put my root FreeBSD slice before the first 504 MB. My BIOS DOES support that disk with its 1280 MB. I don´t have to "run" any special booting software. I´d like to keep a whole C: FAT Win95 partition (with no Extended DOS partition). So.... Can I split my disk in just two slices: an old DOS partition just with less disk space, and all the rest (let´s say around 300 Mb) to FreeBSD slices without having to take care of 504 MB problem? Thank you very much in advance, Ricardo Nunez
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