Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 17:32:46 +0100 From: Rob O'Donnell <robert@aphnet.co.uk> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>, "Alexander Isaev" <A.Isaev@astelit.ru>, <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Big HDD (80 Gb) under FreeBSD 4.5 Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.20020607173246.009c8f90@aph2k> In-Reply-To: <004e01c20e1f$c0670ff0$0301a8c0@bigdaddy> References: <17127155838.20020606163736@astelit.ru>
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At 05:35 07/06/2002 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Alexander Isaev" <A.Isaev@astelit.ru> >> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.5 on 80 GB HDD (on ASUS TUSI-M >I just did this myself about a week ago. I remember getting the same >message but I don't remember doing anything special. I think I just >ignored it and told Fdisk to create a slice using the entire disk. >Anyway, the numbers that Fdisk used were the like the ones on your >HDD, 16383/16/63, not the ones the BIOS reported. > I've put 120Gb discs on FBSD (4.3 as it happens). used the interface through sysinstall. FDISK was fine, but disklabel fell over on the default settings. Had to fiddle about with inodes and block sizes. (Sorry can't remember details - this was at home, and I'm not on this list there.) As an aside, will i need to recompile kernal or do anything special to add additional IDE interfaces bar the two normal ones? I've got an add-in pci ata100 board that I might need to use to add more drives to the fileserver. rob -- APH Computers Ltd. Tel: 0161-442 2603 Fax: 0161-443 1162 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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