Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 21:10:50 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Percy Cheng <percy@iohk.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About FreeBSD boot manager... Message-ID: <199807030410.VAA03762@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Jul 1998 09:04:31 %2B0800." <Pine.BSI.3.95.980703090126.15624A-100000@igate.iohk.com>
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> On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Yes, although there are some problems to be careful of here: > > > > - all of these filesystems must be within the first 1024 cylinders of > > the disk in order to be bootable. > > - the win98 installation may not get along well with the win95 > > installation (c:\windows != $WINDOWS) > > > Thanks for your kind attention, but can I get more > detail on : What's mean within 1024 cylinders?? And how > much the HDD space can be located within it?? This depends on your disk. Typically, it means that you're restricted to the first 500MB of an IDE disk. > Furthermore, in the second point, does it means > may not be posibble if I want to boot win98 with booteasy? It may not be possible to have Win95 and Win98 coexisting on the same system, regardless of boot manager. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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