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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!unlisys!desert!heaven7.snafu.de!usenet From: martini@heaven7.snafu.de (Martin Ibert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 install fiasco Date: 07 Jan 1996 23:55:19 +0100 Organization: The Seventh Heaven, Berlin, Germany Lines: 18 Sender: martini@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org Distribution: inet Message-ID: <ufbuofvcmg.fsf@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org> References: <4c9vmb$17h@mars.efn.org> <4cj8bu$1cc@news1.cle.ab.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: bruce.halco@ab.com's message of 5 Jan 1996 13:16:46 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 In article <4cj8bu$1cc@news1.cle.ab.com> bruce.halco@ab.com (Bruce Halco) writes: : The partition *begins* well below cylinder 1023, but ends slightly over it. Will : this get me by, or does the entire partition need to be below 1023 (ala' DOS and : OS/2)? AFAIK, the fdisk partition that holds FreeBSD does not need to be completely within the first 1023 cyls, but the root filesystem should better be, since the kernel needs to (and you don't want to take chances, do you?). Other filesystems in the FreeBSD whatever-FreeBSD-chooses-to-call-this-level-of-disk-partitioning can extend beyond the magic boundary. -- __ | Martin Ibert, Fürstenweg 11, D-13589 Berlin-Spandau, Germany, EU ( )__ | martini@heaven7.snafu.de, Fon: +4930-3753479, Fax: +4930-3753699 ( )_ |----------------------------------------------------------------- (_________) | All that we see or seem/is but a dream within a dream. -- E.A.P. <PGP public key is available on request or from any self-respecting key server>