From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 28 06:41:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA10690 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 06:41:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ninbox.ml.org (hsv1-123.airnet.net [207.242.81.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA10663 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 06:41:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ninbox.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA02951; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 08:40:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Message-ID: <360F91C7.FE102895@airnet.net> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 08:40:23 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Absolutely None! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: faeton CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation with Drive Overlay (EZ-DRIVE)? References: <360F41F0.E74C1567@bigfoot.com> <360F6D9F.D988767F@airnet.net> <360F7A15.EC8F0389@bigfoot.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 UAH CS Home WWW ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message