From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 1 17:56:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA26974 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Mar 1996 17:56:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA26917 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 1996 17:56:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA04242; Sat, 2 Mar 1996 12:29:15 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603020159.MAA04242@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: HELP!!!! To: dbostedo@vt.edu (David M. Bostedo) Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 12:29:14 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199603012356.SAA04644@sable.cc.vt.edu> from "David M. Bostedo" at Mar 1, 96 06:54:22 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk David M. Bostedo stands accused of saying: > I have an IBM 486 with a 100MHz overdrive processor and 12MB of RAM. I also > have two Hard drives, one a 212MB, C:, that I have Windows '95 installed on. > The other one is a 1.2GB Western Digital that is partitioned into 700MB, D:, > and 520MB onto which I wish to install freeBSD. I have a version 2.0.5 CD You cannot successfully boot with this combination; your BSD partition on the second drive is beyond the reach of the BIOS. > David M. Bostedo -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[