From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 12 09:31:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA01191 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 09:31:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from motgate.mot.com (motgate.mot.com [129.188.136.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA01179 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 09:30:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chappelt@ecid.cig.mot.com) Received: from pobox.mot.com (pobox.mot.com [129.188.137.100]) by motgate.mot.com (8.8.5/8.6.10/MOT-3.8) with ESMTP id LAA24643 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 11:30:57 -0500 (CDT) Comments: ( Received on motgate.mot.com from client pobox.mot.com, sender chappelt@ecid.cig.mot.com ) Received: from eerie.ecid.cig.mot.com (eerie.ecid.cig.mot.com [175.12.25.191]) by pobox.mot.com (8.8.5/8.6.10/MOT-3.8) with ESMTP id LAA12221 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 11:30:53 -0500 (CDT) Received: from ecid.cig.mot.com (vrbas.ecid.cig.mot.com [175.12.25.127]) by eerie.ecid.cig.mot.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA13263 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 17:26:53 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <35587968.B79C5D66@ecid.cig.mot.com> Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 17:31:36 +0100 From: Tim Chappell Organization: Motorola X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.20 9000/735) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: IDE drive Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear All, I've got a PC on loan for 6 months, that I'd like to run freebsd on. The hard disk is already partitioned into 3 drives. The third drive E, I can 'do what I like to'. I'm quite happy to boot freebsd from a floppy, and then use 'E' for the system. Will this work? Any pointers? 'E' is definitely outside the BIOS boot sector limit. Many thanks for any help, Tim. -- Tim Chappell. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message