Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:27:28 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dale Chulhan - Home <dchulhan@uwi.tt> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Does Size Really Matter ( Any More ) Message-ID: <20010111082728.D44170@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3A5C5C29.1FC3B205@uwi.tt>; from dchulhan@uwi.tt on Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 08:57:13AM -0400 References: <3A5C5C29.1FC3B205@uwi.tt>
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On Wednesday, 10 January 2001 at 8:57:13 -0400, Dale Chulhan - Home wrote: > Hello in my beginning days of bsd and linux etc there were many > documentations indicating that the root slice of FreeBSD cannot be > beyond the 1024th cylinder. > > I was wondering if in today's now commonplace world of 20 and 80 GB > drives if this still holds true. No. > Take for example if I have a nice lil IBM or Seagate 40GB drive and > I take the first half for Win98 and I Install FreeBSD on the second > 20GB partition, what will be the consequences? That will work for recent releases of FreeBSD and PC hardware. Why did you send this to -chat? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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