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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 12:45:41 -0700 (MST)
Cc: jeff@stat.uconn.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <199604081408.XAA09832@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 8, 96 11:38:33 pm
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> > I just received the text 'Installing and Running FreeBSD' by Greg
> > Lehey and in it he suggests to keep the root partition in the first
> > 1024 cylinders of my EIDE 1.6GB hard disk.  However, I have managed
> > to install and support a FreeBSD 2.1.0 system on my hard disk living
> > entirely well beyond the 1024th cylinder for some time.  If I plan
> > to never communicate with my DOS partition, need I worry about any
> > other stability problems if I keep my system installed as is?
> 
> You have the _entire_ system beyond the 500M mark?  Hmm, one is curious as
> to how you boot.  That's the only reason for keeping the root partition
> below the 500M mark.

I was wondering the same thing...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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