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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To: Carson Saunders <casaunde@vt.edu>
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Subject: Re: Help with installation!!! Please!!
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On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Carson Saunders wrote:

> I just got a release of FreeBSD, 2.2.1 I think it is.  I was reading in 
> the manual about installation and it says that since I have an EIDE hard 
> disk that I should install BSD into the first 504MB of the drive.  My 
> problem is that I have Win95 on the first 2GB of my drive.  Do I need to 
> redo the whole disk with BSD first?  Any pointers or bits of advice?  I 
> would really appreciate your help.  If the info is needed, I have a 
> 266Mhz Pentium II with 64 Megs RAM with 4GB drive.  Please help!!!!
You should be able to install just fine.
The reason the manual says this is that some old BIOS's couldn't
understand more than a 504 MB disk initially, so anything having to do
with bootup had to be within that space; after that, the OS (which was
more intelligent) could read thewhole disk.
With such a new machine, however, you should have no problems.  I have a
Compaq Presario bought around August '96; it originally had a Pentium 120
in it (now a Cyrix), and I had FreeBSD installed on the last 100 megs of
my 1.2 gig drive.  100 meg partition... ug....
Anyway, you should have no problems putting it after '95; that's the
upshot of this whole speech.

> Thanks in advance
> Carson Saunders
> casaunde@vt.edu

Hope it helps!

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