From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 2 19:33:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A70837B638 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 19:33:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA62295; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 12:03:33 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 12:03:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: mark Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Disk access (was: FreeBSD questions) Message-ID: <20000703120333.V39024@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <001c01bfe497$40219300$67047418@oemcomputer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <001c01bfe497$40219300$67047418@oemcomputer> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 2 July 2000 at 21:34:44 -0500, mark wrote: > Couple questions about FreeBSD: > > 1) Does FreeBSD support the Promise ATA/66 Controller card? Yes. > If so, are there any special instructions that need to be > followed to configure the card No. > 2) Can FreeBSD be used on a partitioned disk with windows 98 SE? If so, > where should FreeBSD be located on the hard drive (ie. front 3 gigs or > can it be located on the back 3 gigs)? The only restriction is that you must place your root file system where the BIOS can boot from it. Modern BIOSes can boot from at least the first 8 GB of disk. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message