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From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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Ricardo;

Please keep these questions on the questions@freebsd.org list, this is
for more technical issues.

Although my disk is 1.6G size, my BIOS doesn't support LBA, and so my
Windows partition is limited to a bit more that 500M. If your BIOS
supports LBA, you can keep a bigger DOS partition. (FIPS is your friend,
but remember to defrag well your disk). It's really very simple.

	Pedro.

Ricardo Núñez wrote:
> 
> 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