From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 10 13:57:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06FB337B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:57:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 917806A90D; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:27:28 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:27:28 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Dale Chulhan - Home Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Does Size Really Matter ( Any More ) Message-ID: <20010111082728.D44170@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3A5C5C29.1FC3B205@uwi.tt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A5C5C29.1FC3B205@uwi.tt>; from dchulhan@uwi.tt on Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 08:57:13AM -0400 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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