Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 06:25:11 -0500 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net> To: "Andrew Nesbit" <alnesbit@optushome.com.au> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FW: Re: FreeBSD installation discs Message-ID: <015901c0a7c2$70a4b3b0$0f00000a@eagle> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010308221144.0210f050@mail>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of > Andrew Nesbit > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 6:14 AM > To: Barry Irwin; g.todd@internet.co.nz > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FW: Re: FreeBSD installation discs > > > 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. Eh, it's only 8 heptabytes of space... Or, for those with Microsoft on the brain, it's the size of a standard install of NT Small Business Server. *snicker* --- Andy (bored out of his skull at 6:00 reinstalling a firewall) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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