Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 13:49:38 -0700 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> To: Ricardo Núñez <rinunez@telcel.net.ve> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 504 MB Limit Message-ID: <339B1AE2.4C06@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> References: <19970608101105.AAA4908@telcel.telcel.net.ve>
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Ricardo; Please keep these questions on the questions@freebsd.org list, this is for more technical issues. Although my disk is 1.6G size, my BIOS doesn't support LBA, and so my Windows partition is limited to a bit more that 500M. If your BIOS supports LBA, you can keep a bigger DOS partition. (FIPS is your friend, but remember to defrag well your disk). It's really very simple. Pedro. Ricardo Núñez wrote: > > Dear Gentlemen, > > I have the following things: > > - FreeBSD 2.2.1 CD-ROMs > - "The Complete FreeBSD" book from Greg Lehey. > - A PC Clone with a Triton Motherboard, 24 MB RAM and... > - An IDE (EIDE?) disk which has 1280 MB capacity (620 cylinders, 64 heads, > 63 sectors) > - All the hard disk has a working Windows 95 environment in one partition. > > I´d like to avoid Greg Lehey´s advice which said (page 30) that I have to > put my root FreeBSD slice before the first 504 MB. My BIOS DOES support > that disk with its 1280 MB. I don´t have to "run" any special booting > software. I´d like to keep a whole C: FAT Win95 partition (with no Extended > DOS partition). So.... > > Can I split my disk in just two slices: an old DOS partition just with less > disk space, and all the rest (let´s say around 300 Mb) to FreeBSD slices > without having to take care of 504 MB problem? > > Thank you very much in advance, > > Ricardo Nunez
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