From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 19 01:40:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA10639 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 01:40:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA10634 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 01:40:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA16101; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 18:09:47 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id SAA20561; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 18:09:46 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980819180946.A13676@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 18:09:46 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jeff Z. Chi" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.0 References: <19980819120827.D13676@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jeff Z. Chi on Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 11:13:01PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 18 August 1998 at 23:13:01 -0700, Jeff Z. Chi wrote: > On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: >> I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here, Doug. There *have* >> been problems with IDE disks with more than 8 GB under 2.X, and >> they've only just been resolved (after 2.2.7-RELEASE). Jeff, if you >> have a disk like that, you should upgrade to 2.2-STABLE. > > I have a 4.3 GB HD, and partitioned it into 4. The first 2 partitions > are one for Windows and the other for FreeBSD, to squeeze into the first > 500 MB as instructed in "The Complete FreeBSD". And I found out even the > whole 500 MB to reside the c:\windows and some common shared files was > pretty tight when you install more and more programs, as what I am into > right now. As you said it only had problems with IDE drives with more > than 8 GB, which had also been resolved in 2.2.7. It was resolved after 2.2.7. > (BTW, I have 2.2.6) I could just partition my HD in 2 with 2GB each, > one for windows and the other for FreeBSD. Am I right? That depends on your BIOS. You still need to be able to read the boot partition, and the BIOS decides that. More modern BIOSes don't have the 504 MB limit any more (they've introduced the 1 GB limit, the 2 GB limit and the 4 GB limit :-) One of these days I'll try to write this up. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message