Stable version of FreeBSD 5.0

[Matthew Seaman]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:58:25PM -0400, Gerald S. Stoller wrote:

> >From: Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com>

> >The 1024-cylinder limit hasn't been a problem for years.  I believe the
> >loader has always supported it, and the boot block has a "packet" mode

>     I haven't heard (or read) about this at all (nor has a friend who uses  
> Linux ),
> where can I find out about the "packet" mode and how to use it.  I'm running
> FreeBSD  version 4.3 (also have version 4.7 but I'm not using it much), 
> does it
> have this "packet" mode?

Yes it does.  See the boot0cfg(8) man page, but in short you need a
command like:

    # boot0cfg -o packet ad0

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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