Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 15:59:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: "Craig A. Heilman" <craigh@bugsoft.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q: Install prob. w/ 1 IDE & 1 SCSI drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960501155736.12245C-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <v0213050aadad816c9a1e@[205.213.64.30]>
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On Wed, 1 May 1996, Craig A. Heilman wrote: > At 11:25 05/01/96, Doug White wrote: > >On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Craig A. Heilman wrote: > [...] > >> (3) I assumed that if I installed BootEasy on wd0, then I would initially > >> boot off wd0 where BootEasy would take over, give me a choice of OS, then > >> boot FreeBSD no matter where it lives! (ie. above the 500MB BIOS limit). > >> Is this an incorrect assumption? Will BootEasy work for my situation and > >> which drive should it go on? > > > >BootEasy must go on the first disk, and it does not overcome the DOS > >BIOS limitation. > > > OK - BootEasy must go on my first disk (IDE). The question that still > remains is "can my FreeBSD root partition reside above the 500MB limit (ie. > can I put it on the SCSI drive)?" Or am I always forced to put FreeBSD's > root partition below the 500 MB limit? No. You _must_ have at least the root partition below 500mb. You can put the rest anywhere you want. One suggestion was to create root below 500mb, have your dos partition or whatever, and put /var,/usr, etc. after that. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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