Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1990 14:04:24 -0600 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "Clarence Brown" <clabrown@granitepost.com>, "'Bill'" <bwoods2@uswest.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a REAL OLD system help please Message-ID: <015d01b42777$2dbe8c60$c4ebfea9@josh> References: <002201bfe6dc$21078dc0$8c6896d1@granitepost.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Clarence Brown" <clabrown@granitepost.com> To: "'Bill'" <bwoods2@uswest.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 5:52 PM Subject: RE: FreeBSD on a REAL OLD system help please > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Bill > > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 1:53 PM > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: FreeBSD on a REAL OLD system help please > > > > > > I have been given a REAL OLD P100 w/32 megs memory, so I > > think cool, small > > home lan mail server. Well I happen to have this 10gig ide > > hanging around, > > that I am not useing,(eveyrthing else I have is SCSI) so I pop it > in, > > change BIOS to autodetect the HD and proceed to HD install. > > The partition > > scheme is / is 400, /var is 2gig, /usr is 7gig and rest swap. Well, > > anyway, the ftp install goes fine , I goto reboot and NADA, > > it starts to > > boot and the spinner just stops.......wont boot for crap. > > > > I am almost positive its the 10 gig HD in it thaqts causing the > > problem. Like I said its a old system, doesnt even have pci > > slots. I took > > a look in BIOS tyo see if I could set the HD to LBA, no such luck. > > > > Now, I do have some software that I got with the drive, to make old > > systems see large drives, Maxtor HD Max or something, but I > > am almost sure > > that wont work with freebsd. > > > > So, any gurus have any suggestions for me on how to get this > > to work... > > > > Bill > > > > I had similar problems with an old 486-50 which wouldn't work right > with the Large IDE drive I was trying to install. I solved the problem > by installing a special bios extension board in an ISA slot, which > provided bios extensions to address large hard drives. I picked the > board up for about $20 - $30 at Office Depot or CompUSA (I don't > remember it's been a while). After that the system understood how to > deal with large hard drives and I had no more problems. > I think that you are talking about is an IDE controller. Comp USA has them here for $19.99. I find it interesting that this system is a Pentium with no PCI slots. What kind of machine is it? Josh > Cla. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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