From: Vincent Poy (vince_at_mail.MCESTATE.COM)
Date: Tue May 18 1999 - 04:31:00 EDT
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Donald Mak wrote:
> Don't know about FreeBSD but with Linux it needs the boot sector to start
> below the 1024th cyl.
I think the reason is that FreeBSD needs a bootloader regardless
if it's a single partition or not. Linux can run Lilo from DOS.
Cheers,
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> > Hi Donald,
> >
> > > One thing I forgot to mention. You wrote something about FreeBSD. I also
> run
> > > Linux on my system. If you are planning the same then what you will need
> to
> > > do is make another partition for Linux within the first 1024 cylinders.
> > > Usually that means within the first 8 gigs.
> >
> > Actually, with FreeBSD, it can go up to 4 terabytes within the
> > first partition.
> >
> > > The best way to do that (that I have found) is use something like
> partition
> > > magic and resize your D: drive. In my case I took the first gig of the
> D:
> > > drive and made that my linux drive. Then I took another 128 megs of the
> end
> > > of the drive and made that the Linux swap file. Runs great. Now if only
> IBM
> > > would write drivers for linux...
> >
> > YEp, I used PartitionMagic 4.0 to resize the C: drive to 14 gigs.
> > I lose my PM 3.0 somewhere in my house so had to buy PM4.0 just to do
> > this.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Vince - vince_at_MCESTATE.COM - vince_at_GAIANET.NET ________ __
> ____
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> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Vincent Poy <vince_at_mail.MCESTATE.COM>
> > > To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 4:16 PM
> > > Subject: ThinkPad 770Z 9549-8AU
> > >
> > >
> > > > I just got my ThinkPad 770Z 9549-8AU and just have a question
> > > > regarding the HDD before I attempt to manually reinstall and clone the
> > > > apps and data I have on my 385ED 2635-5EU. I would like to take this
> time
> > > > to thank Bill, Joy, Randy, Donald, and anyone else I forgot for their
> tips
> > > > and advice before. Anyways, I got the 14.1GB Hard Drive model and I
> > > > noticed in the control panel, there is both a C and the D drive. I
> > > > thought everything was supposed to be on one drive level rather than
> two.
> > > > Now, my question is when I install things, what drive do I put it on
> or is
> > > > one of them really a virtual drive letter and I can just put
> everything on
> > > > C? I haven't went over 8 GB's for EIDE/SCSI drives on my Desktop
> under
> > > > Win95/98 and the big drives usually are for my FreeBSD partitions.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Vince - vince_at_MCESTATE.COM - vince_at_GAIANET.NET ________ __
> > > ____
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