From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 8 3:26:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from edwin.mounet.com (edwin.mounet.com [216.145.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B054C37B718 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 03:26:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hornback@wireco.net) Received: (qmail 1860 invoked by uid 0); 8 Mar 2001 11:11:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO eagle) (216.145.70.46) by mounet.com with SMTP; 8 Mar 2001 11:11:00 -0000 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: "Andrew Nesbit" Cc: Subject: RE: FW: Re: FreeBSD installation discs Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 06:25:11 -0500 Message-ID: <015901c0a7c2$70a4b3b0$0f00000a@eagle> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010308221144.0210f050@mail> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----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