Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 19:10:11 +0930 From: Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au> To: "Zac M. Speidel" <pepsikid83@yahoo.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0-release installation problems Message-ID: <01070319243200.09489@PhD_1.testname.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20010702160124.46016.qmail@web13001.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20010702160124.46016.qmail@web13001.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 03 Jul 2001, Zac M. Speidel wrote: > I have heard about some system BIOS having an > issue with exceeding 1024 cylinders or whatnot, but > this is for OLD machines not new 1.5 ghz machine.. Sorry. Your information is false. You must have your FreeBSD boot partition inside that 1024 cylinder limit. ME probably takes less than 500M, so parttioning wouldn't be difficult. I run an 8G drive with 3 partitions -1.5G windos 1.5G windos and 5G FreeBSD - and this works just fine. I started with the 5G as Free Space using Partition Magic, FreeBSD identified this and installed easily. You might need to experiment to see just how large you might be able to make those first two partitions, as you have a 20G drive. Problem is that if you try windos-windos-freeBSD - windos the first two windos partitions will not be able to 'see' that third windos past the intervening FreeBSD partition, so you WILL need to make those first two as large as you can, while still keeping the FreeBSD boot partition happy. Personally, I would have avoided many problems by having two drives each of 10G rather than one of 20G. Oh well ... too late now. BTW, your question should have been placed in FreeBSD-questions. -- Regards, Brian ******************************************************** Dr Brian Astill Visiting Research Fellow Flinders University Institute of International Education Bus 8201 3480 FAX 8449 9199 bastill@sa.apana.org.au ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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