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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!nntp.gmd.de!nntp.darmstadt.gmd.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de!phase23!citylink.dinoex.sub.org!peter From: peter@citylink.dinoex.sub.org (Peter Much) Subject: Re: Grateful and Humble Newbie Questions Organization: Buero fuer Sektenforschung und Qualitaetspruefung in der Esoterik Message-ID: <DBDpuq.KG0@citylink.dinoex.sub.org> References: <kargl-0507950950270001@128.95.97.183> <1995Jul5.194753.27248@schbbs.mot.com> <3tff9p$f13@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> Date: Sat, 8 Jul 1995 04:01:37 GMT Lines: 21 In article <3tff9p$f13@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>, Paul Hutmacher <paul@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> wrote: >I've got a WD 540 and a WD 1.2G and have it partitioned with dos using 450 >of the first one and 504 of the second. The rest is FreeBSD. I did have >some problems with the / filesystem going past track 1024 and no wanting >to work right but /usr is the second 700+ mb of the 1.2G drive. > >I have an old bios too. It took awhile to work out and I did leave some >blank space on the 540 but what the heck. If one does this for the first time, it's a bit difficult - but there's nothing new in it. It is exactly the same procedure as it was to con- figure a MFM or RLL disk > 1024 cyls. on an AT286. The cyls. above would be accessible only to something like Xenix or some network buffers addressing their disksapce as a separate partition. Peter -- Write to: Peter Much * Koelnische Str. 22 * D-34117 Kassel * +49-561-774961 peter@citylink.dinoex.sub.org much@hrz.uni-kassel.de p.much@asco.nev.sub.de