Date: Sat, 09 Aug 1997 17:16:19 +0900 From: Hiroyuki HANAI <hanai@astec.co.jp> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu Cc: lsmarso@panix.com, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Libretto 50 and FSD Message-ID: <19970809171619K.hanai@astec.co.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 8 Aug 1997 13:14:41 -0700 (PDT)" References: <199708082014.NAA20177@vader.cs.berkeley.edu>
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From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) > Ok, let me clarify. Thank you for cleaning up my trash. :-) > (1) The problem with DOS fdisk vs. FreeBSD fdisk/sysinstall is not > that you can't use the FreeBSD utilities, but it's that you need > to leave some number of megabytes at the tail end of the disk > unused (and sysinstall will try to use the whole thing if you > don't explicitly tell it not to), right? Yes. > (2) Is the amount "34MB" related to memory size? For instance, if I Yes. I think that the size of the tail region depends on memory size. But.... > have a machine with 48MB of memory, is it 50MB or 98MB that I > need to leave? Sorry, I don't know how does it depend. -- H.Hanai
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