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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!bcm.tmc.edu!pendragon!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: EIDE & FreeBSD; Windows NT 3.51 & FreeBSD. Date: 27 Jun 1996 21:17:25 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4qutp5$9p@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31d2614b.11946624@news.kornet.nm.kr> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E DIGITAL@SOBACK.KORNET.NM.KR (KIM HAN KOO) wrote: > I heard that FreeBSD doesn't support EIDE. > I have Pentium 90 with 1.08 GB and 850 MB HDD. > Do I have to do the partition for FreeBSD below 540MB? FreeBSD doesn't strictly support EIDE, but it supports IDE to the level the hardware permits. As i've been posting here recently, that is 127.5 GB. If the disk must be shared with the BIOS (with it's deeper limitations), this number drops to e.g. 31.5 GB. However, your /kernel file must be loaded by the BIOS at boot time, thus it must reside below the ficticous (from your BIOS' point of view) cylinder 1024. This is most often the 504 MB limit. Don't extend FreeBSD's root partition beyond this point. -- 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. ;-)