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Date:      Wed, 02 Oct 2002 13:29:13 -0700
From:      Mike Hogsett <hogsett@csl.sri.com>
To:        Matthew Donadio <m.p.donadio@ieee.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 8.4Gb IDE Drive Limit 
Message-ID:  <200210022029.g92KTDWZ006977@axp.csl.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Oct 2002 16:13:13 EDT." <3D9B5359.C2C9E179@ieee.org> 

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> I split the drive in two with the intentions of installing FreeBSD on
> one slice, and Linux on the other (I haven't tried Linux yet).  Are you
> suggesting that I should try putting / on a small slice by itself, and
> see if that boots?  It's worth a shot.

I would suggest that you make a 256Mb partition with a single 256Mb
FreeBSD slice as the first partition on the disk, then divide the
remaining space as you see fit.  (Redhat*) Linux will also want a /boot
partition (64 - 128Mb will do, should be below cylinder 1024).

 - Mike

* I don't have experience with the other Linux distributions, so the
others may have different requirements.

P.S.  I would not spend the effort installing Linux if it was my machine.
FreeBSD is far superior in many ways.


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