From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 19 15:24:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02381 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 15:24:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02315 for ; Tue, 19 May 1998 15:23:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA11964; Tue, 19 May 1998 15:23:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 15:23:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "L. Floyd" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation doesn't see unused portion of new HD In-Reply-To: <3560D8B8.55DF025@sonic.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 18 May 1998, L. Floyd wrote: > > Wonder if you need to turn LBA off. > > I wondered that too, but I was concerned with the issue behind keeping > the root partition within the first 1024 cylinders (I'm looking in > Lehey's book, 1st edition). Perhaps that doesn't apply anymore due to > the advancement of BIOSs? I dunno. I think it is related to LBA but haven't done any research on it, mainly because I consider that much storage for a workstation a waste of money :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message