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From: peter@citylink.dinoex.sub.org (Peter Much)
Subject: Re: Grateful and Humble Newbie Questions
Organization: Buero fuer Sektenforschung und Qualitaetspruefung in der Esoterik
Message-ID: <DBDpuq.KG0@citylink.dinoex.sub.org>
References: <kargl-0507950950270001@128.95.97.183> <1995Jul5.194753.27248@schbbs.mot.com> <3tff9p$f13@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 1995 04:01:37 GMT
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In article <3tff9p$f13@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>,
Paul Hutmacher <paul@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> wrote:

>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.

If one does this for the first time, it's a bit difficult - but there's
nothing new in it. It is exactly the same procedure as it was to con-
figure a MFM or RLL disk > 1024 cyls. on an AT286. The cyls. above
would be accessible only to something like Xenix or some network buffers
addressing their disksapce as a separate partition.

Peter
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