From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 10 14:27:42 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA14390 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 14:27:42 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA14385 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 14:27:40 -0800 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA01315; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 14:27:16 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199511102227.OAA01315@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: IDE HD > 1Gb To: lmcsato@lmc.ericsson.se (Samy Touati) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 14:27:16 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Samy Touati" at Nov 10, 95 03:24:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 473 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk No, you can use tracks beyond 1024 for NON booting partitions fro FreeBSD.. you can slice the disk up so that unly the root partition of freeBSD is below 1024.. that's only 30 MB or so.. you can let other OSs use the rest of that low region.. > So if I understand it if I buy a 1.0Gb HD, and plug it on my existing IDE > controller everything will work fine if I use the entire disk for FreeBSD? > I'll get into trouble when I'll decide to partition the HD for 2 OS. >