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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dos Partition Mount
Date: 6 Oct 1996 11:47:41 GMT
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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In article <32560C30.3E12@www.play-hookey.com>,
Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> writes:
> Thomas D.G. Sandford wrote:
>> I believe it is ~1GB - I have a 2GB drive partitioned not quite equally.
>> The (slightly) smaller partition mounts fine, mounting the larger is a recipe
>> for total disaster. Fortunately I bought a DAT drive with the same order...
>>
>
> 1024 cyls * 16 heads * 63 sectors = 1,032,192 sectors = 516,096K = 504MB
>
> if you do it in binary mode. The actual requirement is that the ROM BIOS
> must be able to locate and load the kernel; it can then load everything
> else from the whole drive. If your, BIOS, like so many, has the above
> limits on direct access to the hard drive, the whole kernel must reside
> below that limit.
We're actually talking about the maximum size of a DOS partition before
FreeBSD hits it's msdosfs bug - not about where you can put FreeBSD's
root partition.
BTW, does anyone know how to stop innd & knews from complaining about
having too much quoted text in a posting ? It's a *real* dumb idea !
I must look into this along with why knews can't thread its own postings
properly !
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....