From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 24 17:06:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA15526 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 17:06:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA15521 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 17:06:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA14512; Fri, 25 Dec 1998 11:35:15 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA18043; Fri, 25 Dec 1998 11:35:17 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981225113517.R12346@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 11:35:17 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Onur Toker , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Harddisk > 2GB, what to do ? References: <36831C37.FB633B9A@ccse.kfupm.edu.sa> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <36831C37.FB633B9A@ccse.kfupm.edu.sa>; from Onur Toker on Fri, Dec 25, 1998 at 02:01:43AM -0300 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 25 December 1998 at 2:01:43 -0300, Onur Toker wrote: > Hello, > > I have a harddisk of size 4.3GB. Can you please tell me > step by step what should I do to use it with my FreeBSD box ? No. > I tried to use /stand/sysinstall but it gave error messages. > By the way, I am using 2.2.1. You haven't told us the error messages. How can we guess what's gone wrong? There's no problem installing on disks of this size, though you should consider installing a newer version of FreeBSD. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message