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Date:      Sun, 10 Nov 2002 16:49:12 -0600
From:      "Mike Loiterman" <mike@ascendency.net>
To:        "'Marco Radzinschi'" <marco@radzinschi.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Adding additional HD space
Message-ID:  <000f01c2890b$677c7350$0302a8c0@mike>
In-Reply-To: <20021110171702.I95943-100000@radzinschi.com>

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> 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.

 
> 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.

> 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.

> 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?

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