Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 12:45:41 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: jeff@stat.uconn.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <199604081945.MAA02824@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199604081408.XAA09832@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 8, 96 11:38:33 pm
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> > I just received the text 'Installing and Running FreeBSD' by Greg > > Lehey and in it he suggests to keep the root partition in the first > > 1024 cylinders of my EIDE 1.6GB hard disk. However, I have managed > > to install and support a FreeBSD 2.1.0 system on my hard disk living > > entirely well beyond the 1024th cylinder for some time. If I plan > > to never communicate with my DOS partition, need I worry about any > > other stability problems if I keep my system installed as is? > > You have the _entire_ system beyond the 500M mark? Hmm, one is curious as > to how you boot. That's the only reason for keeping the root partition > below the 500M mark. I was wondering the same thing... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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