Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 18:09:46 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jeff Z. Chi" <zchi@hal.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.0 Message-ID: <19980819180946.A13676@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SO4.4.00.9808182300060.16525-100000@arcadia.hal.com>; from Jeff Z. Chi on Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 11:13:01PM -0700 References: <19980819120827.D13676@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.SO4.4.00.9808182300060.16525-100000@arcadia.hal.com>
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On Tuesday, 18 August 1998 at 23:13:01 -0700, Jeff Z. Chi wrote: > On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: >> I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here, Doug. There *have* >> been problems with IDE disks with more than 8 GB under 2.X, and >> they've only just been resolved (after 2.2.7-RELEASE). Jeff, if you >> have a disk like that, you should upgrade to 2.2-STABLE. > > I have a 4.3 GB HD, and partitioned it into 4. The first 2 partitions > are one for Windows and the other for FreeBSD, to squeeze into the first > 500 MB as instructed in "The Complete FreeBSD". And I found out even the > whole 500 MB to reside the c:\windows and some common shared files was > pretty tight when you install more and more programs, as what I am into > right now. As you said it only had problems with IDE drives with more > than 8 GB, which had also been resolved in 2.2.7. It was resolved after 2.2.7. > (BTW, I have 2.2.6) I could just partition my HD in 2 with 2GB each, > one for windows and the other for FreeBSD. Am I right? That depends on your BIOS. You still need to be able to read the boot partition, and the BIOS decides that. More modern BIOSes don't have the 504 MB limit any more (they've introduced the 1 GB limit, the 2 GB limit and the 4 GB limit :-) One of these days I'll try to write this up. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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