From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 12 11:30:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA26275 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 11:30:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA26188 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 11:29:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA03258; Tue, 12 May 1998 11:28:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 11:28:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Tim Chappell cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE drive In-Reply-To: <35587968.B79C5D66@ecid.cig.mot.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, 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