From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 18 15:20:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA12295 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:20:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12268 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:20:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA07494; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:19:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:19:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Jeff Z. Chi" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.0 In-Reply-To: <35D9BCE0.47D0AD5@hal.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Jeff Z. Chi wrote: > I know FreeBSD 2.2 cannot handle EIDE drives greater than 500 MB. > As instructed in the book, we have to partition it into 2 boot > partitions, one for win and one for FreeBSD. That is a limitation of your system BIOS, not FreBSD. > I am wonder if the upcoming FreeBSD 3.0 still has that problem. On your system, yes. > Frankly, it is quite not friendly. Complain to your computer manufacturer. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message