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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: can FreeBSD 2.2.2 be installed on an LBA mode harddisk?
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On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Massoud Asgharifard wrote:

> I have a Quantom Fireball IDE hard disk  (size is 1.7G) which I use for
> Win95, I'd like to install BSD on it (processor is DX/2 66) if possible,
> can I do so? My hard disk uses LBA mode addressing (Logical block address) 
> 
> I have read the README, but found nothing about that.

No problem, as long as there is unallocated partition space on the disk.

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