Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 04:19:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: harddisks Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960512041152.21012B-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960511233808.14985J-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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On Sat, 11 May 1996, Doug White wrote: > Shouldn't be much of a problem, as long as the root partition is below > 500MB or so. I see this number a lot, and I assumed this was because the partition must be below 512MB in order to be bootable. However, my hdd is split into one msdos partition, 1.1GB, and 430MB FreeBSD one. The dos partition is first. The FreeBSD sure _seems_ bootable! (I haven't actually tried it, because the floppy install bombed halfway and /kernel wasn't copied yet, but the FreeBSD bootloader (is that the right term? I mean that funky thing where you can enter '?' to get a file list of the root directory, or enter -cCs etc) starts finely). Does the limit only apply when you install something like OS-BS? -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk
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