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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newbie Question Date: 22 Dec 1995 00:04:34 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4bcsmi$gdp@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4aplrt$e3e@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> 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 0.9.3 mingram@polisci.ufl.edu@mingram@polisci.ufl.edu (Martin Ingram) writes: > Is freebsd limited to being in the first 1024 cylinders of the disk. No, but unfortunately, your BIOS is. You don't need the BIOS to run FreeBSD (or Linux, FWIW), but you need it to _boot_ the system. -- 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. ;-)