From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 19:35:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from search.sparks.net (search.sparks.net [208.5.188.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AB6137B532 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 19:35:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmiller@search.sparks.net) Received: by search.sparks.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id CB4ABDC01; Wed, 17 May 2000 22:29:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by search.sparks.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA2D7DC00; Wed, 17 May 2000 22:29:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 22:29:40 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller To: Mike Boto Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition size In-Reply-To: <002701bfc06d$e2a510a0$6b57d03f@oemcomputer> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 17 May 2000, Mike Boto wrote: > I recently replaced my 4.0 GB hard drive with a 15.3 GB one, and when > putting FreeBSD on it, found that I could only access roughly 2GB of > the entire disk. Now I had read about how this was a problem in various > DOS formats, as well as Win95A, but I didn't consider it a factor when > using the entire disk for a BSD install. Out of curiosity, I tried > installing Win98 (the only other operating system discs I had on > hand) to see if it was a hardware issue, but it recognized the entire > drive with no problems. I've been looking for a solution to this for an > hour or so, and I was hoping someone here could assist me on how to > utilize the entire drive. You're probably running into a bios limitation. Your choices are to use an alternate bios setup which "translates" the number of cylinders into something under 1024, or to setup freebsd with two partitions, or slices. --- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message