From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 2 21:10:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA07110 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 21:10:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles185.castles.com [208.214.165.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA07088 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 21:10:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA03762; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 21:10:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807030410.VAA03762@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Percy Cheng cc: Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About FreeBSD boot manager... In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 03 Jul 1998 09:04:31 +0800." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 21:10:50 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Yes, although there are some problems to be careful of here: > > > > - all of these filesystems must be within the first 1024 cylinders of > > the disk in order to be bootable. > > - the win98 installation may not get along well with the win95 > > installation (c:\windows != $WINDOWS) > > > Thanks for your kind attention, but can I get more > detail on : What's mean within 1024 cylinders?? And how > much the HDD space can be located within it?? This depends on your disk. Typically, it means that you're restricted to the first 500MB of an IDE disk. > Furthermore, in the second point, does it means > may not be posibble if I want to boot win98 with booteasy? It may not be possible to have Win95 and Win98 coexisting on the same system, regardless of boot manager. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message