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Date:      Sun, 30 Dec 2001 09:14:55 +0100
From:      Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Limitations of BSD-slices.
Message-ID:  <20011230081401.TXVI22989.fepB.post.tele.dk@there>

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I'm about to install FreeBSD onto a new drive and since I like to play with a 
wast amount of OS' I need to be carefull on how I organise my drives. So I've 
been reading through Handbook to see which limitation FreeBSD is posing onto 
the drives.

I've found that FreeBSD is still "hogging" a primary partition/slice and I've 
only got 4 partition within a slice, a-d being reserved and h being the 
maximum. Why is it limited to h?

Last time I installed FreeBSD I recall that / was needed to be located below 
8GB for it to boot. Is this limitation still in act or am I free to boot from 
anywhere on the drive? Can't find anything about it in the Handbook.

Bjarne
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