From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 21:45:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA02338 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 21:45:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA02332 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 21:45:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00547; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 21:44:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 21:44:57 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Christopher Moore cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DOS and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <3276E144.4530@primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Christopher Moore wrote: > Could I run DOS on the first part of my Hard Drive and FreeBSD on > the second? Or do I still need to get some kind of emulator. This is OK BUT BUT BUT FreeBSD's kernel must reside below the 1024th cylinder of the hard drive. This translates to: if your DOS partition is more than about 450mb then you will really need to watch your root partition size. The cap is somewhere around 500mb depending on your disk. This is a BIOS limitation. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major