From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 29 21:10:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2892B37B689 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 21:10:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA50591; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 21:10:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200007300410.VAA50591@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: Installing On dell inspiron & Win 2000 In-Reply-To: <20000729201941.J21967@fw.wintelcom.net> from Alfred Perlstein at "Jul 29, 2000 08:19:41 pm" To: Alfred Perlstein Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 21:10:18 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Mike Roth [000729 16:05] wrote: > > Hi I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 on a Dell Inspiron 5000 with > > Windows 2000 Professional and I'm having a bit of trouble. There is > > a 12 gig disk, with Win2000 using the first 8 gigs. I try to install > > afaik FreeBSD's root partition must reside within the 1024th cyl. For versions prior to 4.1, yes. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message