Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 13:19:02 +0530 (IST) From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Bill <wmf521@hotmail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1024 cyl. Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004021316140.2790-100000@theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <20000402134716.N59549@freebie.lemis.com>
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> [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > > On Friday, 31 March 2000 at 21:42:10 -0600, Bill wrote: > > I know Linux has a booting limit. I have a 37.5 GB IBM hard drive and Linux won't install. Will FreeBSD? > > Please limit your lines to < 80 characters. > > > I know Linux has a booting limit. I have a 37.5 GB IBM hard drive > > and Linux won't install. Will FreeBSD? > > FreeBSD will. I'm pretty sure that Linux will too. In both cases, I learnt once (the hard way) that the root partition must be under 1 MB. (or maybe 2 MB). It's not enough if the / "slice" in FreeBSD is small: the MSDOS-style partition itself must be. Maybe this is a machine or BIOS dependent thing, though. For me, that time, slicing up an 8 GB disk didn't work, I needed to partition it first. If you do that, and make sure / is < 1 MB, linux should certainly install too. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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