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From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper)
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Subject: Re: DOS and FreeBSD
To: nappy@prmenet.com
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 09:30:53 -0500 (EST)
Cc: questions@freebsd.org, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
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Doug White:
 |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.

If you're running with BIOS LBA, you can safely put part or all of the
partition above cylinder 1024.

Randall Hopper
rhh@ct.picker.com