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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Newbie Question
Date: 22 Dec 1995 00:04:34 GMT
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mingram@polisci.ufl.edu@mingram@polisci.ufl.edu  (Martin Ingram) writes:

> Is freebsd limited to being in the first 1024 cylinders of the disk.

No, but unfortunately, your BIOS is.  You don't need the BIOS to run
FreeBSD (or Linux, FWIW), but you need it to _boot_ the system.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)