Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 12:53:16 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: lenzi@cwbone.bsi.com.br (Sergio Lenzi) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: more boot disk.... Message-ID: <199510260323.MAA09677@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951025194342.3719D-100000@cwbone.bsi.com.br> from "Sergio Lenzi" at Oct 25, 95 07:49:26 pm
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Sergio Lenzi stands accused of saying: > Ok but... If I make a FreeBSD slice that begins on cyl 1 for example, > and in that slice I make some filesystems this way: > > rootfs 60Mb starting on cyl 1 > swap 100MB > usr 500MB > home 700MB > > I supose that the rootf ,where the kernel resides, is in the > beggining of the disk, so accessible by the bios right???? > > So if I partition the disk this way the system will work. It's my experience that this will be fine. You're obviously aware of the cylinder 1 requirement, so everything else should be fine. Be careful that the BIOS and FreeBSD sectors per cylinder counts match. > Lenzi. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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