Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 20:00:27 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Roop Nanuwz <roopn@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large hard drive... Message-ID: <39F106CB.2FCBF65A@urx.com> References: <000a01c03afc$a689eb40$0201a8c0@carpoolbc.com>
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You will have better luck with 4.1 and your hardware arrangement. The / partition has to end before cylinder 1024, which is ~8.4GB using LBA, when you use anything before version 4.1. Kent > Roop Nanuwz wrote: > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 from CD onto a 30GB maxtor > (7200RPM) hard drive. The hard drive is partitioned into 28GB and > 2GB.. the 28GB are used by Win98 (FAT32) and the 2GB partition is > free.. I'm trying to install FreeBSD onto the 2GB partition, but the > install proggie only recognizes the first 2GB which is part of the > win98 partition.. is there a kernel feature i have add before it > recognizes the large hard drive? or is there something else I need > to do before I can install BSD onto the end of the drive like this? > Any help would be appreciated.. thanks > > Roop -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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