Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 11:28:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Tim Chappell <chappelt@ecid.cig.mot.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980512112807.2985o-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35587968.B79C5D66@ecid.cig.mot.com>
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On Tue, 12 May 1998, Tim Chappell wrote: > 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. Some PCs can handle it. your main problem is that you have to delete drive E and (maybe) shrink the associated extended partition. 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
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