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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!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-9.sprintlink.net!news.infi.net!news.infi.net!not-for-mail From: rolfe@richmond.infi.net (Alex Rolfe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Harddisk partitions Date: 5 Apr 1997 12:59:03 GMT Organization: InfiNet Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5i5ian$d1b$1@nw003.infi.net> References: <Pine.A32.3.91.970402141428.8112A-100000@pheebs.citytel.net> <3345AF15.41C67EA6@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: pa1dsp17.richmond.infi.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38611 In article <3345AF15.41C67EA6@silas.cc.monash.edu.au>, dhenshaw@silas.cc.monash.edu.au says... >I've got a small (400Mg) Win95 partition , followed by a 500Mg FreeBSD >partition (which remeber must start below the 1024th cylinder (or within >the first 504Mb), followed by an extended DOS partition for the rest of >my Windows crap. I would disagree about the FreeBSD being withing the first 504MB. My DOS partition is 900MB with FreeBSD following and does fine. It uses Ontrack DiskManager to handle the drive since the BIOS can't and then uses the boot manager that comes with FreeBSD to handle the systems. Alex rolfe@richmond.infi.net