Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:19:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Jeff Z. Chi" <zchi@hal.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808181518570.19286-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35D9BCE0.47D0AD5@hal.com>
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On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Jeff Z. Chi wrote: > I know FreeBSD 2.2 cannot handle EIDE drives greater than 500 MB. > As instructed in the book, we have to partition it into 2 boot > partitions, one for win and one for FreeBSD. That is a limitation of your system BIOS, not FreBSD. > I am wonder if the upcoming FreeBSD 3.0 still has that problem. On your system, yes. > Frankly, it is quite not friendly. Complain to your computer manufacturer. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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