From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 8 06:16:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA25327 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 06:16:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from UConnVM.UConn.Edu (uconnvm.uconn.edu [137.99.26.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA25322 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 06:16:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ruddles.stat.uconn.edu by UConnVM.UConn.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Mon, 08 Apr 96 09:15:27 EDT Received: by ruddles.stat.uconn.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11384; Mon, 8 Apr 96 09:10:30 EDT Date: Mon, 8 Apr 96 09:10:30 EDT From: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf) Message-Id: <9604081310.AA11384@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I just received the text 'Installing and Running FreeBSD' by Greg Lehey and in it he suggests to keep the root partition in the first 1024 cylinders of my EIDE 1.6GB hard disk. However, I have managed to install and support a FreeBSD 2.1.0 system on my hard disk living entirely well beyond the 1024th cylinder for some time. If I plan to never communicate with my DOS partition, need I worry about any other stability problems if I keep my system installed as is? Thank You, JM