Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 23:38:33 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <199604081408.XAA09832@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9604081310.AA11384@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu> from "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" at Apr 8, 96 09:10:30 am
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Jeffrey M. Metcalf stands accused of saying: > > I just received the text 'Installing and Running FreeBSD' by Greg > Lehey and in it he suggests to keep the root partition in the first > 1024 cylinders of my EIDE 1.6GB hard disk. However, I have managed > to install and support a FreeBSD 2.1.0 system on my hard disk living > entirely well beyond the 1024th cylinder for some time. If I plan > to never communicate with my DOS partition, need I worry about any > other stability problems if I keep my system installed as is? You have the _entire_ system beyond the 500M mark? Hmm, one is curious as to how you boot. That's the only reason for keeping the root partition below the 500M mark. > JM -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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