From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 21 18:29:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA00457 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 18:29:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from goliath.airnet.net ([207.120.51.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA00449 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 18:29:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 18:29:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pm6-203.airnet.net (207.120.51.203) by goliath.airnet.net (WorldMail 1.3.122); 21 Sep 1997 20:28:51 -0500 Message-ID: <341D37C00000B74D@goliath.airnet.net> (added by goliath.airnet.net) X-Sender: kirbykb@airnet.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Alfred Perlstein From: Kris Kirby Subject: Re: dammit! :) Cc: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Alfred: >sorry for this, but that system i was talking about in the previous >message is giving me a heck of a hard time. The BIOS in it doesn't >support large harddrives and i have a 4.3 gig IDE in it. Here's what I did on my machine [722MB, no LBA/etc]. Make a 32 or 33 Mbyte primary partition below the 500 MB limit, assuming that you only want / to be 32Mbytes. Make that your / filesystem. Then put /usr, etc. on the remaining chunk. When FreeBSD is installed/restored, your kernel will boot from the smaller partition, and when in comes out of "real" mode, it can access the whole 4.3 GB. BTW, "real" mode ends when the kernel stops spewing out bright text. >is there anyway to save the installation i did? My solution presents a problem because the / filesystem is tarred in there too. Anyone else? Regards, Kris