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From: lumpy <lumpy@cs.ucc.ie>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installation onto large IDE drives
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 17:40:13 +0100
Organization: UCC Computer Science Dept.
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I have a Gateway P133 with a 2Gb drive. FreeBSD has a 250Mb partition
at the start of the drive, Win 95 has the next 1500Mb followed by NT. I
had no difficulties in getting all three to coexist, so I can only
assume that you shouldn't have any either. Once FreeBSD stays under
1024th cylinder of course!
The only problem that I can forsee is a limitation with the BIOS but
judging by the spec of your machine, I'd say its fairly new and therefor
would have an up-to-date BIOS.
One anomaly I encountered was that fdisk refused to allocate the
partition one after the other. There is a few unused Mbs between the
three partitions. Does anyone knoe why this is?
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