Installing on large disk

[Garrett Cooper]

John C Nolen wrote:
> I have a 40 GB hard disk that was made in 2001 with windows xp
> installed on a 20 GB partition. BIOS setup says 19158 cylinders, 16
> heads and 255 sectors.
> I want to install freeBSD on the second 20 GB partition. All the
> instructions seem to refer to small disks, as they appear to require
> cylinders less than 1023.
> Sysinstall appears to require cylinders less than 1023. Did I miss
> something?
> Is it possible to install BSD as a dual operating system with windows
> xp on a disk larger than 8 GB ?
> Am I trying to do something impossible?
> Should I just ignore warnings and type in 1023 when asked about
> cylinders?
> If I uninstall the windows xp can I put freeBSD on one big 40GB
> partition?
> I could not find any information on this in handbook or FAQ. 
Yes, just ignore the cylinder warnings..

Interesting thing is that I never got those and I have installed FBSD on
multiple 80GB disks :).

-Garrett