From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 30 0:14: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fepB.post.tele.dk (fepB.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99F7537B419 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 00:14:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([62.243.18.54]) by fepB.post.tele.dk (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with SMTP id <20011230081401.TXVI22989.fepB.post.tele.dk@there> for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 09:14:01 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Limitations of BSD-slices. Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 09:14:55 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20011230081401.TXVI22989.fepB.post.tele.dk@there> 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 I'm about to install FreeBSD onto a new drive and since I like to play with a wast amount of OS' I need to be carefull on how I organise my drives. So I've been reading through Handbook to see which limitation FreeBSD is posing onto the drives. I've found that FreeBSD is still "hogging" a primary partition/slice and I've only got 4 partition within a slice, a-d being reserved and h being the maximum. Why is it limited to h? Last time I installed FreeBSD I recall that / was needed to be located below 8GB for it to boot. Is this limitation still in act or am I free to boot from anywhere on the drive? Can't find anything about it in the Handbook. Bjarne -- Homepage: http://www.mekanix.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message