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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
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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