Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 12:46:06 -0600 From: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx> To: <wonko@entropy.tmok.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: goofy setups Message-ID: <002101bf2ae2$b09e40c0$fba3f9cf@megared.net.mx> References: <199911080440.XAA02445@entropy.tmok.com>
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Hi,
This its more a BIOS problem, than a Free Unixes problem. if you use an
scsi disk, you will not have this problem, because the scsi card has its own
BIOS, or if your hardware its brand new, you probably dont have this problem
either.
Greetings...
Ales
----- Original Message -----
From: Wonko the Sane (Brian Hechinger) <wonko@users.tmok.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 10:40 PM
Subject: goofy setups
> my machines are all offline (i need to buy some HW and re-arrange a couple
> other things) so i was thinking about installing FreeBSD on his PC. i
don't
> want to use the bootloader since he whines every time something changes
(he
> doesn't really know what he is doind)
>
> is it possible to grab the last couple GB of his 13GB EIDE drive and boot
> from a floppy? i don't remember if FreeBSD has this problem, but a lot of
> Free UNIXes do (Linux does, but then it's crap) where the bootable area
> can't be past 1GB (or something like that) on an IDE disk. since i'll be
> doing this from a boot floppy, i don't need to worry about this right?
>
> thanks,
>
> -wonko
> --
> "Free memory is wasted memory." -Solaris 2/FAQ
>
>
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