Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 10:50:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, iang@iafrica.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation query Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960508104459.5209A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960508104649.22025C-100000@ian.iafrica.com>
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This is getting confusing... On Wed, 8 May 1996, Khetan Gajjar wrote: > At present, no it does not. However, the only that will be on it is FreeBSD. That doesn't make any difference. But, if nothing else is going to be on there, then you should be okay since your root partition will be WELL below 500MB. I'm not 100% sure if FreeBSD can access the whole disk if you take off the overlay, though. My sentiment is yes, it will work; but I haven't used FreeBSD on any machines with overlays (since all my machines work OK). I'm under the impression that it won't be needed, since a friend of mine had an 800MB IDE on a fbsd box and it didn't have an overlay (but I was never around to watch it boot). > I want to run FreeBSD on one hard drive (the one with the overlay installed) > and DOS on another hard drive (less than 400mb, so no overlay needed). OK, no problems there. > I don't need a boot manager (although it would be nice). If I understand > this correctly, what I should do is zap everything, remove all > partitions, create a dos partition and install Win95 on it and then > install FreeBSD. Then I will get the boot manager. No. Maybe I should ask what you are doing, since it's hopelessly lost back in the thread. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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