From owner-freebsd-questions  Thu Dec  7 09:21:30 1995
Return-Path: owner-questions
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA00254
          for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 09:21:30 -0800 (PST)
Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA00249
          for <questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 09:21:28 -0800 (PST)
Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA04996; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 10:19:26 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Message-Id: <199512071719.KAA04996@phaeton.artisoft.com>
Subject: Re: Free BSD Installation question
To: fmotta@acinc.com (fmotta)
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 10:19:26 -0700 (MST)
Cc: support@cdrom.com, questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <9511048181.AA818114140@interlnk.cygnet> from "fmotta" at Dec 4, 95 01:55:40 pm
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org
Precedence: bulk

>      I have a system which has the following drive configuration:
>      
>         DRIVE NO    DESCRIPTION
>         0           405 Mb IDE (One partition with DOS/Windows)
>         1           2.3 Gb SCSI Barracuda
>      
>      
>      Drive 1 has 5 partitions/logical drives (D:-H:).
>      
>      I would like to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 onto partition/drive H: which
>      is presently formatted as a DOS partition and contains Nothing.
>      
>      Is this possible?

How many physical cylinders does the drive have?

As long as the BSD 'a' slice does not span or exceed the 1023 cylinder
BIOS boundry (which would mak it impossible for the drive boot blocks
to boot it), you should be fine.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.