From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 19:10:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF7637BC85 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 19:10:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bl29x5@earthlink.net) Received: from oemcomputer (dialup-63.208.87.107.Stamford1.Level3.net [63.208.87.107]) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA06740 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 19:10:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <002701bfc06d$e2a510a0$6b57d03f@oemcomputer> Reply-To: "Mike Boto" From: "Mike Boto" To: Subject: Partition size Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 22:07:45 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0019_01BFC04C.544DDE20" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0019_01BFC04C.544DDE20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I recently replaced my 4.0 GB hard drive with a 15.3 GB one, and when = putting FreeBSD on it, found that I could only access roughly 2GB of the = entire disk. Now I had read about how this was a problem in various DOS = formats, as well as Win95A, but I didn't consider it a factor when using = the entire disk for a BSD install. Out of curiosity, I tried installing = Win98 (the only other operating system discs I had on hand) to see if it = was a hardware issue, but it recognized the entire drive with no = problems. I've been looking for a solution to this for an hour or so, = and I was hoping someone here could assist me on how to utilize the = entire drive. ------=_NextPart_000_0019_01BFC04C.544DDE20 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I recently replaced my 4.0 GB hard = drive with=20 a 15.3 GB one, and when putting FreeBSD on it, found that I could = only=20 access roughly 2GB of the entire disk. Now I had read about how = this was a=20 problem in various DOS formats, as well as Win95A, but I didn't consider = it a=20 factor when using the entire disk for a BSD install. Out of = curiosity, I=20 tried installing Win98 (the only other operating system discs I had = on=20 hand) to see if it was a hardware issue, but it recognized the entire = drive with=20 no problems. I've been looking for a solution to this for an hour = or so,=20 and I was hoping someone here could assist me on how to utilize the = entire=20 drive.

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