From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 10 15:31:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C882C37B69F for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:31:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f0ANUM193683; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:30:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3A5C5C29.1FC3B205@uwi.tt> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:30:35 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Dale Chulhan - Home Subject: RE: Does Size Really Matter ( Any More ) Cc: "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 10-Jan-01 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. > > 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? FreeBSD 4.1 or later will work fine from anywhere as long as your onboard BIOS is 1995 or later. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message