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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!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!IN-Berlin.DE!fub!mind.de!nostromo.in-berlin.de!ripley From: ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de (H. Eckert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Freebsd Installation Date: 21 Jan 1997 20:27:28 GMT Organization: Private access site, Berlin, Germany, Europe Lines: 36 Message-ID: <slrn5ea9lg.3u4.ripley@nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de> References: <32e3faaa.12711716@news.swbell.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34347 mbianchi@swbell.net (Maurice R. Bianchi): > Am I correct to say that you can install the root directory in a hd > slice past the 528 MB limit if the BIOS supports LBA? I have a 2Gbyte disk and installed OnTrack on it which works fine. (The OnTrack manager came together with the drive) If I haven't miscalculated the sizes the FreeBSD part of the drive begins at about 550Mbyte which is above the 528Mbyte limit... > Does the root directory slice have to be on the c: drive or can I put > it on my e: drive? I think that you can't but I am hoping. The e: > drive is empty for that reason. Your notion about drives and drive-letters could need some improvement as the letters are a purely DOS-ish thing and don't mean anything at all to other OS's except maybe for providing confusion. > 1.6 GM Western Digital IDE HD c:, f:, g:, h:, i: > 340MB Western Digital IDE HD d:, j: > 540MB Western Digital IDE HD e: See what I mean ? The order is completely unrelated to the physical drive. Now, IDE being as limited as it is has no proper numbering scheme (as opposed to SCSI) and used to support only two devices. The newer method "EIDE" supports up to four and I don't see any reason why FreeBSD shouldn't work with it. It's just a matter of identifying the correct device name for the drive. Greetings, Ripley -- H. Eckert, 10777 Berlin, Germany ISO 8859-1: Ä=Ae, Ö=Oe, Ü=Ue, ä=ae, ö=oe, ü=ue, ß=sz. "(Technobabbel)" (Jetrel) - "Müssen wir uns diesen Schwachsinn wirklich anhören?" (Neelix)