Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:30:35 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Dale Chulhan - Home <dchulhan@uwi.tt> Cc: "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <chat@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Does Size Really Matter ( Any More ) Message-ID: <XFMail.010110153035.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3A5C5C29.1FC3B205@uwi.tt>
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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 <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- 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
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