From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 22:30:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from emerald.oz.net (emerald2.oz.net [216.39.128.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 324DD37B8F8 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 22:30:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vikki@oz.net) Received: from oz.net (vikki.oz.net [216.39.144.179]) by emerald.oz.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA14281 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 22:22:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <399B7888.4BD1F7ED@oz.net> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 22:30:48 -0700 From: Victoria Welch X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd questions Subject: Boot loader question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello All, I'm pretty new to FreeBSD and while I have a firewall box up using it (still trying to get that properly configured for my needs, but that is another story and I am still working on it :-). I'd like to install this on my personal machine. I am not familiar enough with all this to know what is used for the equivalent of lilo or the basic loader. I'm more than willing to free up a 5G chunk of my drive, but my two primary partitions are taken up with win98 (only because I am a flight sim junkie :-) and RedHat 6.1 which I do use and would rather not delete yet. Will whatever fbsd uses for a loader operate out past the 1024 cyl. limit? And allow me to boot the linux and w98 partitions? I did download the new lilo tonight that will allow one to go past the 1024 cyl. limit but I don't know if I can install FBSD past that. Any help, suggestions or pointers will be greatly appreciated! If you would be so gracious as to CC me since I am not subscribed to this list, again, it would be appreciated. Thanks & take care, Vikki. -- Victoria Welch, WV9K, DoD#-13, SysAdmin SeaStar.org, vikki.oz.net "Walking on water and developing software to specification are easy as long as both are frozen" - Edward V. Berard. Do not unto others, that which you would not have others do unto you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message