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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:44:55 +0200
From: Barry Irwin <bvi@devco.net>
To: g.todd@internet.co.nz
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FW: Re: FreeBSD installation discs
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> 
>  Re installing FreeBSD 4.2, I was intending to buy a computer with a large 
> Disc(30GB) and dual boot Windows Me and FreeBSD.  However, after reading
> the documentation on the 1024 cylinder boot limitations I am now wondering
> whether that is a smart approach.  Would it be better to go for a twin HD
> disc machine to overcome these problems. e.g. 10Gb for Windows and separate
> 20Gb drive for FreeBSD.  FreeBSD will be my primary operating system,
> Windows for specific non UNIX software.

Most new bioses dont suffer from this limitation. In anycase you can always
'hack' round it by having a small / partition at the beginning of the disk
from which the kernel can load

I'm happily running 2k and BSD on a 20gig drive

Barry


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