From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 8 11:13:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA05104 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 8 Jun 1997 11:13:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smarty.telcel.net.ve (ftp.T-Net.net.ve [206.48.41.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA05096 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 1997 11:13:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from telcel.telcel.net.ve ([208.136.193.146]) by smarty.telcel.net.ve (Post.Office MTA v3.1 release 0154 evaluation license) with ESMTP id AAA4908 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 1997 14:11:06 +0400 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ricardo_N=FA=F1ez?=" To: "FreeBSD Hackers" Subject: 504 MB Limit Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 14:09:59 -0400 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1157 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <19970608101105.AAA4908@telcel.telcel.net.ve> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dear Gentlemen, I have the following things: - FreeBSD 2.2.1 CD-ROMs - "The Complete FreeBSD" book from Greg Lehey. - A PC Clone with a Triton Motherboard, 24 MB RAM and... - An IDE (EIDE?) disk which has 1280 MB capacity (620 cylinders, 64 heads, 63 sectors) - All the hard disk has a working Windows 95 environment in one partition. I´d like to avoid Greg Lehey´s advice which said (page 30) that I have to put my root FreeBSD slice before the first 504 MB. My BIOS DOES support that disk with its 1280 MB. I don´t have to "run" any special booting software. I´d like to keep a whole C: FAT Win95 partition (with no Extended DOS partition). So.... Can I split my disk in just two slices: an old DOS partition just with less disk space, and all the rest (let´s say around 300 Mb) to FreeBSD slices without having to take care of 504 MB problem? Thank you very much in advance, Ricardo Nunez