From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 11:44:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bilbo.w-link.net (bilbo.w-link.net [206.98.114.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E37637B62E for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 11:44:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jbyrnes@w-link.net) Received: from eros (dial56-003.w-link.net [208.178.8.38]) by bilbo.w-link.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA25196 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 11:45:55 -0800 (PST) From: "Joshua Byrnes" To: Subject: HDD setup & boot questions Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 10:45:22 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I apologize if this is the incorrect address to which to direct this question. I am a newbie and taking interest in FreeBSD and Linux for recreational/educational purposes. I purchased "The Complete FreeBSD" and it is a wonderful book but I cannot seem to find an answer to my particular question/situation. Right now I have 2 EIDE HDD, both WDC with the following statistics s my BIOS reports them SIZE CYL HD PRECOMP LAND HDD1:NORMAL 13677 26500 16 65535 26499 HDD2:NORMAL 10141 19650 16 65535 19649 I have an ASUS P2B-DS motherboard, which can read large HDD's correctly. I have Partition Magic 4.0 I am planning to start from scratch reformatting both drives and Triple booting WIN98/or WIN2000, FreeBSD and Linux. ***Going with the assumption that I will have to install the MS-Operating System on the first partition of drive 1, what are the requirements/ options in where I can Install FreeBSD and Linux? Can I have HDD1 all for MS-OS and HDD2 for FreeBSD and Linux? Or is there a location requirement that I need to follow. I have read about the requirement of the root file system needing to be installed within the 1024 cyl. Because my BIOS can handle very large HDD, am I still limited by this?**** Your response is greatly appreciated. Sincerely, -Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message