Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 05:17:31 -0500 From: "Benjamin M. Manes" <maneben@charlie.cns.iit.edu> To: Mikael Larsson <u21112218@telia.com> Cc: freebsd <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mulitple os (windows 2000, Linux and freebsd). Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.21.0010080513170.702798-100000@charlie.cns.iit.edu> In-Reply-To: <000e01c0310e$a3896e90$6aed40d5@hemmabjsuf2ufs>
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> questions is that I wrote that freebsd must be installe "above" 8G on > the harddisk, is this true? > > Mike Yep, it is or was. The OS must be installed/booted before the 1024 cylinder. If it isn't, then the system will simply hault and not boot. I believe someone said earlier on here that this was going to be fixed, but I really don't remember. You simply need to install it before the cylinder, so the slice can span over if you wish. Windows/dos have this limitation too. Ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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