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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!eru.mt.luth.se!news.algonet.se!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.uk.ibm.net!news-m01.ny.us.ibm.net!news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net!not-for-mail From: tgibson@ibm.net Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: EIDE Drives && Writing to DOS Partition Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 14:36:52 -0800 Lines: 31 Message-ID: <32C84404.4A7D@ibm.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip166-72-222-243.md.us.ibm.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) CC: tgibso2@cs.umbc.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33630 I am getting ready to order a new machine and want to put the following OS on it FreeBSD (of course) NT (necessity) DOS (how else can I play Tomb Raider?) The machine comes with a 5 GB EIDE drive. Two questions: 1) Does FreeBSD still have the limitations that it must have some bootable section in the first 512 MB of the disk on EIDE drives? The new machine comes with NT. I want to use Partition Magic to repartition the disk and will probably put FreeBSD starting at the 2MB part of the disk -- need to know if this is going to work. 2) I currently use FreeBSD for my class work on a machine I pieced together. While I'm happy with FreeBSD, I cannot FULLY access the DOS partition from FreeBSD (I really did follow all the instructions ...). While I can copy from the DOS partition to FreeBSD, I cannot write back to the DOS partition because FreeBSD has the DOS partition as a read only file system. I know I can change this but don't know how. Right now I'm forced to mcopy stuff to a DOS floppy if I need to exchange data between this machine and my other systems. While this works okay for the work I'm doing now, long term this is unacceptable Any help on either subject is appreciated. Tim Gibson CS Dept., University of Maryland - Baltimore County tgibso2@cs.umbc.edu <http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~tgibso2>