Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 19:01:44 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: guardian@dark-rune.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD: Where can / go? Message-ID: <3BA94E08.53DF6321@urx.com> References: <39973.203.102.38.135.1000946761.squirrel@www.dark-rune.com>
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guardian@dark-rune.com wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've just been looking through the docs.. but I couldn't find
> and answer to this question:
>
> Q: How far down a drive can the / be?
>
> I thought that / had to be within the 500MB limit
> (that is, the whole / parition has to allocated on the first
> HDD within the 500MB region).
>
> >From the docs it looks like you can have the / somewhere up
> in the 2GB region (the docs give examples of a 4 Gig HDD,
> where the second half of the drive has FreeBSD on it).
> I have not found a reference (yet) as to how far down the
> disc the / partition can be.
>
> Thanks if anyone can help
>From 4.1 on, it doesn't matter providing your system will recognize
it. For example, my dual 866 coppermine system is setup like
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 11,(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT)
start 63, size 10249407 (5004 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 637/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 15,(Extended DOS, LBA)
start 10249470, size 24579450 (12001 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 638/ head 0/ sector 1;
end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 34828920, size 25189920 (12299 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63;
end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 4 is:
You can see that partition 3 starts around 17GB in on the drive.
Kent
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