Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:15:21 +0000 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: chrishiker@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Installing on large disk Message-ID: <4607D579.6050705@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <4606E08F.9070707@yahoo.com> References: <4606E08F.9070707@yahoo.com>
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John C Nolen wrote: > I have a 40 GB hard disk that was made in 2001 with windows xp > installed on a 20 GB partition. BIOS setup says 19158 cylinders, 16 > heads and 255 sectors. > I want to install freeBSD on the second 20 GB partition. All the > instructions seem to refer to small disks, as they appear to require > cylinders less than 1023. > Sysinstall appears to require cylinders less than 1023. Did I miss > something? > Is it possible to install BSD as a dual operating system with windows > xp on a disk larger than 8 GB ? > Am I trying to do something impossible? > Should I just ignore warnings and type in 1023 when asked about > cylinders? > If I uninstall the windows xp can I put freeBSD on one big 40GB > partition? > I could not find any information on this in handbook or FAQ. Yes, just ignore the cylinder warnings.. Interesting thing is that I never got those and I have installed FBSD on multiple 80GB disks :). -Garrett
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