From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 11 17:27:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73DB737B401 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:27:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.radzinschi.com (pcp02453773pcs.owngsm01.md.comcast.net [68.55.91.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB31043E3B for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:27:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marco@radzinschi.com) Received: from localhost (marco@localhost.radzinschi.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.radzinschi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAC1RDhj098576; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:27:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marco@radzinschi.com) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:27:13 -0500 (EST) From: Marco Radzinschi To: Mike Loiterman Cc: Subject: RE: Adding additional HD space In-Reply-To: <000f01c2890b$677c7350$0302a8c0@mike> Message-ID: <20021111201942.S98539-100000@radzinschi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Mike Loiterman wrote: > > > The 10 GB Hard Disk should have a "BIOS Limitation" jumper that > > will make the BIOS think it is a 508 MB drive. Set that jumper, > > and the system should boot. > > I thought so too. I tried setting it, but I couldn't get it to boot. > I guess the drive *could* be damaged, but I just pulled it out of a > Windows box where it was working fine. It still has XP on it. Would > that make a difference? I never reformatted it after I pulled it > out. > You might want to check the BIOS settings. Instead of having it "autodetect" the hard disk, for example, set it to the highest that the hard disk's documentation suggests. > > Once you have that drive in there, you could create the file system > > structure on it however you want, but place the / and /boot > > partitions below 500 MB so that the system will boot when you take > > out the old drive. > > Do you mean make the / and /boot partitions *less* then 500 MB or > *below*. If you mean below, I'm not sure how to do that. Make the / and /boot partitions the first ones, and make them LESS than 500 MB, combined. Technically, the / partition includes /boot, but so you could get away with just making a / partition. Also, the limit is 504 MB, but I prefer to make / around 256 MB. > > Note that you will have to tell fdisk the correct geometry of the > > disk. > > I don't know how to do this or at least I don't remeber. When you run fdisk, you can set the correct geometry. If you are not comfortable with fdisk, then you can just run /stand/sysinstall and do it from there. Sysinstall is the FreeBSD installer, and has a menu driven partition feature. You can select it under "Configure," then "Fdisk" and "Label" appropriately. > > Otherwise, create the partitions exactly how you have them on your > > 2 GB drive, making them larger as you wish, and dump + restore the > > files from one disk to the other. > > When you say "dump + restore" you mean do a level 0 dump and then a > restore? Is that correct? Dump level 0 is the correct one, but in your particular case, you may want to use tar instead. It is up to you. Marco Radzinschi E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." -- Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message