Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 08:40:23 -0500 From: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> To: faeton <fez@bigfoot.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation with Drive Overlay (EZ-DRIVE)? Message-ID: <360F91C7.FE102895@airnet.net> References: <360F41F0.E74C1567@bigfoot.com> <360F6D9F.D988767F@airnet.net> <360F7A15.EC8F0389@bigfoot.com>
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faeton wrote: > Hmm, yes my Acer BIOS can't support the large HDD so it does require the > overlay if i want to run windows as well.. Argh! We tease me with a > perfect install?! > Can you still run FreeBSD off of the old HD? You wouldn't be able to mount the Windows drive under FreeBSD, but it would give you *something* to play with. It's not good to install on a overlaid disk. The overlay changes the BIOS block requests on the fly, thus FreeBSD wouldn't work. FreeBSD uses 32-bit addressing, or absolute access, not limited by the BIOS. If FreeBSD was you're only OS, you could use the 4.3G without BIOS support. That is, unless it has the same problems that Packard Bell did, in which case it's better of building another machine. The PB actually *stopped* detecting the drive. Appearantly, Maxtor knew just how to get around this, but the Overlay only works for DOS/Windows. Sorry... -- Kris Kirby UAH Mail <kirbyk@email.uah.edu> UAH CS <kkirby@cs.uah.edu> Home <kris@airnet.net> WWW <nomurphy@hotmail.com> ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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