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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!tezcat!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FREEBSD and large hard drives Date: 5 Jan 1997 17:21:19 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5aonuf$8lr@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32cf3407.3598521@news.ols-inc.com> 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 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33678 csartler@ols-inc.com wrote: > I would like to install FREEBSD on a hard drive which also contains a > DOS partition and a LINUX partition. The only free space is out at the > end of the drive, past the 1024 cylinder mark. > > Does this pose a problem for FREEBSD ? Your boot partition (partition `a' inside the FreeBSD part of the disk) needs to be below this, in order to be accessible by the BIOS. Nobody says you can't have two partitions (we call them `slices', in order to distinguish them from Unix partitions). -- 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. ;-)