From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 6 11:49:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2000.popstick.com. (unknown [66.37.210.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8A0A37B403 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 11:49:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbasila@popstick.com) Received: (qmail 6927 invoked by uid 1006); 6 Aug 2001 18:49:59 -0000 Received: from nbasila@popstick.com by dns1.popstick.com with qmail-scanner-0.96 (. Clean. Processed in 0.388749 secs); 06 Aug 2001 18:49:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hemingway) (209.192.254.30) by 0 with SMTP; 6 Aug 2001 18:49:58 -0000 Message-ID: <006501c11ea8$63bffcb0$2d03000a@hemingway> From: "Nicholas Basila" To: , "Massimo Nascivera" References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010806162820.00a571f0@box.clubnet.tin.it> Subject: Re: question about installing freebsd Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 14:48:31 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As someone else said, it's a matter of the bios supporting that. I've had good luck recently. I've got win2k on a laptop ... and it takes up 3/4 of the drive: FreeBSD is definitely after the 1024th cylinder. I installed the FreeBSD boot manager on the MBR, and have no problem booting either FreeBSD or win2k. I used to play the trick of creating a partition to become the root partition in the beginning of the hard disk, installing the new os, and then installing FreeBSD. Nicholas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Massimo Nascivera" To: Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 10:31 AM Subject: question about installing freebsd > Hello there! > I have a pc with windows 98/2000 and I want to install freebsd 4.3 too. > Can I install freebsd on a partition above 1024 cylinder? > > Thanks, > Massimo > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message