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#! rnews 1433 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!newspump.wustl.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mail From: paul@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Paul Hutmacher) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Grateful and Humble Newbie Questions Date: 5 Jul 1995 20:46:33 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3tff9p$f13@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: <kargl-0507950950270001@128.95.97.183> <1995Jul5.194753.27248@schbbs.mot.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com In article <1995Jul5.194753.27248@schbbs.mot.com>, Ron Feigen <ronf@phx.sectel.mot.com> wrote: >FreBSD and DOS can co-exist but if you have a IDE or E_IDE drive >larger than 1024 cylinders (503Meg) you are going to have to say >bye-bye to all tracks past 1024. In other works if you have a 1.6 meg Bzzt! Sorry, wrong answer. I've got a WD 540 and a WD 1.2G and have it partitioned with dos using 450 of the first one and 504 of the second. The rest is FreeBSD. I did have some problems with the / filesystem going past track 1024 and no wanting to work right but /usr is the second 700+ mb of the 1.2G drive. I have an old bios too. It took awhile to work out and I did leave some blank space on the 540 but what the heck. YMMV and all of that rot. Paul