Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 00:24:32 +0000 From: David Banning <sky_tracker@yahoo.com> To: Carl Delsey <cdelsey@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fdisk recognizes 30GB hard drive as 2GB. Message-ID: <20010520002432.A3241@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <000901c0e0c8$e04b82e0$6501a8c0@HOME>; from cdelsey@home.com on Sat, May 19, 2001 at 06:04:50PM -0700 References: <000901c0e0c8$e04b82e0$6501a8c0@HOME>
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I have an older pentium 100 machine and I know mine, and similar machines have a problem bios that does not recognize large drives. My specific problem only showed up with dos fdisk however, not the FreeBSD one. On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 06:04:50PM -0700, Carl Delsey wrote: > I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.3 onto a 32GB hard drive, but fdisk keeps > thinking it is a 2GB drive. I've seen a number of messages in the archives > for this mailing list of people having the same problem, but I couldn't find > any solutions. Does anybody know if a solution to this problem has been > found or not? > > Thanks, > Carl > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Today is National Existential Ennui Awareness Day. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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