From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jul 29 0: 5:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw01.execpc.com (mailgw01.execpc.com [169.207.2.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB6937B698 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 00:05:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from xopl@execpc.com) Received: from execpc.com (d80.as2.appl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.24.80]) by mailgw01.execpc.com (8.9.1) id CAA17663 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 02:05:44 -0500 Message-ID: <39828204.CA619980@execpc.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 02:04:36 -0500 From: Zach Johnson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: 2 OS's on a BIG harddrive... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I've never tried to have a 2nd OS with FreeBSD before. I am building a new system and I have a blank 30.7GB ATA harddrive. These details about the 1024th cylinder confuse me a bit. The 4.1 release notes state something about fixing problems with the 1024th cylinder issue if you have a certain BIOS? If I want to give approx 15GB to FreeBSD and 15GB to winblows, how should I partition this new drive? Should I make a partition for '/' and the primary dos partition for installing winblows in the first 500MB and then use the rest of the disk to make my other FreeBSD and dos partitions? I would be grateful for whatever help you can provide! Thanks, Zach Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message