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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!news.hawaii.edu!ames!onramp.arc.nasa.gov!usenet From: lwilliam@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Tom) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: FAT16 and NetBSD co-existing on on large disk? Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 04:00:49 GMT Organization: Lone Tree Works Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4kcnf6$55p@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> References: <4ji7bo$ggp@thales.nmia.com> Reply-To: lwilliam@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: arc-tac2-slip5.nsi.nasa.gov X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 amb78@thales.nmia.com (Aaron M Brown) wrote: >I have a WD 1.2 gig disk (IDE) and it is installed as 2484 cyl, >16 Heads, 63 Sec Per track... ( according to the BIOS ). >I have two partitons one thats about 700 mb and one thats >about 500 mb... The 500 mb partition is a fat16... >But NetBSD (and >all other unixes (?) don't deal with the disk translation... >and upon installing NetBSD 1.1, I get a 700 mb fat partition that >du and df shows about ~200 mb's I'm not too sure about NetBSD, as I'm only now fetching a copy now for my evaluations, but the Linux house uses a kernel loader (Linux Loader, or LILO for short) than can accept boot time params, such as disk geometry. Many users with drives > 528MB (the std BIOS limit), with and without BIOS sets capable of properly handling the large drive, have used this approach, including it as part of the boot time defaults (so as not to require manual entry), with acceptable results. Hope this helps.