From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 13: 3:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 363A337B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:03:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 886C243E42 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:03:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 10E444FC98; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 16:03:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B8D34A0D; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 16:03:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 16:03:40 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Ryan Haarberg Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question on Multi OSes In-Reply-To: <332301c2665f$71627780$0e6417ac@norada.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Ryan Haarberg wrote: > Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:52:43 -0000 > From: Ryan Haarberg > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Question on Multi OSes > > Dear Representative, > > I am planning on setting a Dell Inspiron 8200 over the weekend. I plan on installing Win XP, Free BSD, and BeOS. Are there any restictions I should keep in mind on partitioning? I plan on formating three partitions as FAT 32. The first one 24 Gb with Win XP (for work), then a 2 Gb for learning FreeBSD and then a 2 Gb for an old favorite BeOS. The only thing I am wondering is if this layout will work? it seems that I had read somewhere that FreeBSD should be within the first 4 Gb of the first hard drive (but I can not seem to find this in the FAQ, is this true. Do you have any reccommednations? > > Sincerly, > > Ryan Haarberg > The only such limitation I've seen in the BSD world is OpenBSD which IIRC has to be within the first 8 GB as of version 3.0 - I have FreeBSD installed at home on a disk somewhere past the 25 GB mark and have had it past the 40 GB mark as well. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message