Date: Tue, 9 Apr 96 12:38:53 MET DST From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> To: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <199604090924.LAA12762@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> In-Reply-To: <9604081310.AA11384@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu>; from "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" at Apr 8, 96 9:10 am
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> I just received the text 'Installing and Running FreeBSD' by Greg Lehey and in > it he suggests to keep the root partition in the first 1024 cylinders of my > EIDE 1.6GB hard disk. However, I have managed to install and support a FreeBSD > 2.1.0 system on my hard disk living entirely well beyond the 1024th cylinder for > some time. Congratulations. Can you tell us more about your configuration? I suspect that it depends on the BIOS: as I said in my book, the limitations stem from the maximum values that most BIOSes understand for heads, tracks and sectors. If you have a BIOS which is less brain-damaged, it will work. > If I plan to never communicate with my DOS partition, need I worry > about any other stability problems if I keep my system installed as > is? No. As Mike Smith said, once it's up and running, you have won. I don't even think that DOS partition access should be a problem. Greg
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