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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!128.230.129.106!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!univ-lyon1.fr!pasteur.fr!oleane!in2p3.fr!news-ge.switch.ch!feed1.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!feed2.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!skynet.be!btnet-feed1!BTInternet!usenet From: Dave Roberts <dave.roberts@saaconsultants.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Installation onto large IDE drives Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 17:18:47 +0100 Organization: SAA Consultants Ltd Lines: 29 Message-ID: <335E3667.1B47@saaconsultants.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gateway.reims.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39602 This is probably a FAQ, but I've searched the FAQ and can't find a reasonable answer. A user in my company wants to install FBSD 2.2.1 onto his P166. It's got a 1.5 IDE hard disc, and claims that it has something like 3148 cylinders. Now I have read about keeping the root partition below the 1024th cylinder, but also that Win 95 likes to be on the first part of the first disc. And that there can only be 4 slices per disc.(?) So, does this mean that I should create 4 slices. Set the first slice to be C: and install Win95. Use the second slice for the FBSD root partition. The 3rd and 4th slices can then be for Win apps, and other FBSD partitions. How does that sound? Or is there a slicker way of doing this? In the days of large single discs coming as standard (the latest P200's we bought had 3Gig discs) this seems to be a limitation to me. Advice appreciated. -- Dave Roberts For PGP Key - send mail with subject of 'get pgp':- Technical Consultant < 51 4B 6A 35 3F C4 B6 3D 13 88 0C B2 48 61 51 1C > SAA Consultants Ltd Electronic Commerce, EDI and Firewall Security S/W Plymouth, UK. Tel: +44 1752 606000 Fax: +44 1752 606838