From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 7 20:39:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from entropy.tmok.com (entropy.tmok.com [204.17.163.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F55A1517F for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 20:39:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wonko@entropy.tmok.com) Received: (from wonko@localhost) by entropy.tmok.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA02445 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 23:40:29 -0500 (EST) From: Wonko the Sane (Brian Hechinger) Message-Id: <199911080440.XAA02445@entropy.tmok.com> Subject: goofy setups To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 23:40:29 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: wonko@entropy.tmok.com X-Useless-Header: why? because i can. X-Organization: The Ministry of Knowledge X-Dreams: an OpenWin that is based on current MIT X11 releases X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG my machines are all offline (i need to buy some HW and re-arrange a couple other things) so i was thinking about installing FreeBSD on his PC. i don't want to use the bootloader since he whines every time something changes (he doesn't really know what he is doind) is it possible to grab the last couple GB of his 13GB EIDE drive and boot from a floppy? i don't remember if FreeBSD has this problem, but a lot of Free UNIXes do (Linux does, but then it's crap) where the bootable area can't be past 1GB (or something like that) on an IDE disk. since i'll be doing this from a boot floppy, i don't need to worry about this right? thanks, -wonko -- "Free memory is wasted memory." -Solaris 2/FAQ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message