From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 12 01:18:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA04592 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 May 1996 01:18:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA04587 for ; Sun, 12 May 1996 01:18:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id EAA19249; Sun, 12 May 1996 04:17:54 -0400 Received: (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) id EAA21661; Sun, 12 May 1996 04:19:22 -0400 Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 04:19:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: harddisks In-Reply-To: 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 Sat, 11 May 1996, Doug White wrote: > Shouldn't be much of a problem, as long as the root partition is below > 500MB or so. I see this number a lot, and I assumed this was because the partition must be below 512MB in order to be bootable. However, my hdd is split into one msdos partition, 1.1GB, and 430MB FreeBSD one. The dos partition is first. The FreeBSD sure _seems_ bootable! (I haven't actually tried it, because the floppy install bombed halfway and /kernel wasn't copied yet, but the FreeBSD bootloader (is that the right term? I mean that funky thing where you can enter '?' to get a file list of the root directory, or enter -cCs etc) starts finely). Does the limit only apply when you install something like OS-BS? -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk