From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 10 14:47:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 548DA37B400 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:47:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([80.4.0.215]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020410214706.OQH7757.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:47:06 +0100 Received: from tuatara.goatsucker.org (tuatara.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.6]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3ALl5V29140; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:47:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott@tuatara.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.goatsucker.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3ALl5L04218; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:47:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:47:05 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell To: Paul Everlund Cc: Pirabhu Raman , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd installation qn Message-ID: <20020410224705.C326@fishballoon.dyndns.org> References: <1018472688.3cb4a8f102ed5@webmail.hcs.ufl.edu> <3CB4A1FE.EBA905DE@cs.umu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3CB4A1FE.EBA905DE@cs.umu.se>; from tdv94ped@cs.umu.se on Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:35:10PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:35:10PM +0200, Paul Everlund wrote: > You should also have in mind, that FreeBSD have to be inside the 1024 > cylinder restriction for it to boot, so move your Windows partitions to > the end of the disk. And don't forget to install the Boot Manager when > prompted. The 1024 cylinder thing is a BIOS restriction, not a problem with FreeBSD as such. Most recent PCs won't have this issue and will let you boot from anywhere you like... every machine I've installed anything on since about 1999 has been fine with this (although I'm sure there are exceptions). I don't know if the standard FreeBSD boot manager will boot from an extended partition though. The Win2K boot manager probably can, or look at something more advanced like grub (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ or /usr/ports/sysutils/grub once you have FreeBSD running). Cheers, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message