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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!usenet.ufl.edu!usenet From: mingram@polisci.ufl.edu@mingram@polisci.ufl.edu (Martin Ingram) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Newbie Question Date: 14 Dec 1995 17:11:25 GMT Organization: University of Florida Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4aplrt$e3e@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> Reply-To: mingram@polisci.ufl.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-16-nerdc-ts5.nerdc.ufl.edu X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 I have Linux on cd-rom but cannot install it on to my machine due to its inability to handle my VL-bus speed, so the tech support told me. (who has been very helpful) On advice of our network administrator he told me to try freebsd. I downloaded the bootdisk and followed the install instructions. Unfortunately, my 500 meg of free space is the last 1/4 of my hard drive and therefore beyond the 1024 cylinder limit. This being the case freebsd would not write to the disk. Is freebsd limited to being in the first 1024 cylinders of the disk. I have a Nexgen P90 586 with VL bus, a 2842a vlbus scsi card, a scsi barracuda 2.1 gig seagate hard drive, 32 meg of ram, 28,800 modem and sony 31a cdrom on a mediavision jazz 16 card. Freebsd finds all these but cannot write to disk. Linux cannot find my hard drive parameters and so stalls. The linux version is a Slackware August 95 cd-rom, freebsd is version 2.1 thanks for any help in advance. Martin Ingram University of Florida Mingram@polisci.ufl.edu