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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!newspump.sol.net!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD on > 500mb HDDs Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 18:15:20 -0700 Organization: Erol's Internet Service Lines: 32 Message-ID: <322640A8.7C49@www.play-hookey.com> References: <322347AD.344@injersey.com> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Chris Rehbein wrote: > > For some reason, (I am a FreeBSD newbie) the installation for FreeBSD > changes my FDISK partitioned 1.7gb Quantum HDD from one boot-level 426mb > partition (for FreeBSD) and one extended DOS partition with 3 equal > partitions with the remaining disk space to one 24 mb FreeBSD partition > and leaves the rest of the HDD (only 480mb!!!) unavailable. Is this > caused by an incompatibility with FreeBSD and my DTC EIDE hard card, or > is it just a FreeBSD shortcoming? I'm running Win95 on a C drive, > running (trying, FreeBSD won't install naturally on 24mb) FreeBSD on D: > bootable partitioned drive. Also, if someone can point me to a FAQ or > something that assists in repartitioning a hard drive with an existing > FAT partition for FreeBSD, that would be very helpful... > CRehbein It looks to me as if your ROM BIOS and motherboard are old enough that they are still limited to 504 MB on the hard drive (1023 cyls x 16 heads x 63 sectors). FreeBSD can still use the drive so long as the "/" partition is within the 504 MB limit, but a number of OSes can't without special drivers. You may have to upgrade it to a newer version. It is also possible that using a hard card instead of a more "standard" drive configuration may have something to do with it -- I've never tried any hardcards, but I have working dual-OS systems with drives up to 2.1 GB, and the only problems I've encountered have been of my own making. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |