From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 8 3:10:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mss.rdc2.nsw.optushome.com.au (ha1.rdc2.nsw.optushome.com.au [203.164.2.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B5F37B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 03:10:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alnesbit@optushome.com.au) Received: from co3027913-a.optushome.com.au ([203.164.216.140]) by mss.rdc2.nsw.optushome.com.au (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010308111005.LZUJ15800.mss.rdc2.nsw.optushome.com.au@co3027913-a.optushome.com.au>; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 22:10:05 +1100 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010308221144.0210f050@mail> X-Sender: alnesbit@mail X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 22:14:22 +1100 To: Barry Irwin , g.todd@internet.co.nz From: Andrew Nesbit Subject: Re: FW: Re: FreeBSD installation discs Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20010308114455.A813@devco.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:44 AM 8/03/01 +0200, Barry Irwin wrote: > > > > Re installing FreeBSD 4.2, I was intending to buy a computer with a large > > Disc(30GB) and dual boot Windows Me and FreeBSD. However, after reading > > the documentation on the 1024 cylinder boot limitations I am now wondering > > whether that is a smart approach. Would it be better to go for a twin HD > > disc machine to overcome these problems. e.g. 10Gb for Windows and separate > > 20Gb drive for FreeBSD. FreeBSD will be my primary operating system, > > Windows for specific non UNIX software. > >Most new bioses dont suffer from this limitation. In anycase you can always >'hack' round it by having a small / partition at the beginning of the disk >from which the kernel can load Yeah, I think that the new BIOSes allow for an addressable range of 2^64 sectors. If a sector is 512 bytes, then that's a total of, erm, a really huge amount of HDD space. -Andrew Nesbit To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message