From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 20: 1: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sendit.sendit.NoDak.edu (sendit.sendit.NoDak.edu [134.129.105.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B7C37B6EF for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 20:01:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jblaufus@sendit.sendit.nodak.edu) Received: from sendit.nodak.edu (ndts14.pt10.ndsu.NoDak.edu [134.129.109.174]) by sendit.sendit.NoDak.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA13216 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:01:05 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <39936AC6.F45AE47A@sendit.nodak.edu> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 21:53:59 -0500 From: Jeff Blaufuss X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Windows 98SE/FreeBSD Dual Install Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am installing FreeBSD on a new Dell Optiplex GX 300 with a 20GB HD, and I am wondering where I need to put the root partition to make it bootable. Specifically I want to know if/how I can exceed the 1024 cylinder limit. What I have been hearing about this limit is contradictory ("It shouldn't be a problem if you have a newer BIOS" and "Your root partition must be below the 1024th cylinder or it won't be bootable, period") Also the Windows restore CD that I have will can only do an install that puts about 490MB onto the disk, and I assume I will need more space on the C drive because this doesn't even include most of the dirvers for my hardware. Right now I am trying to install 3,2-RELEASE, but I should be getting a 4.1-RELEASE CD in about a week and a half. Thanks in advance to anyone who can answer my questions. Jeff Blaufuss To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message