From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 27 3:49:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eeyore.sebster.com (t-24-200.athome.tue.nl [131.155.238.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A947A37B401 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 03:49:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sebster@eeyore.sebster.com) Received: (qmail 87591 invoked by uid 1000); 27 Jun 2001 10:49:33 -0000 Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:49:33 +0200 From: Sebastiaan van Erk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: intranet with FREEBSD Message-ID: <20010627124933.A86114@sebster.com> References: <813232E3AA09D5118E240080C848291A0D9AF1@exchange.fab.hvu.nl> <003e01c0feea$96ae94c0$0215e50a@hotrod> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <003e01c0feea$96ae94c0$0215e50a@hotrod>; from e.blok@student.utwente.nl on Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:21:45AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eelke Blok wrote: > From: "Albert Paijmans" > > > Wat I want to do with BSD is a local PC say a 486 or a bit faster to be a > > file and printer server. > > > Win 98 does use FAT32 for drives bigger > > than 2GB. If possible can I use harddisks of 20GB or above or must it be > > small drives like 2GB. > > As big as you can get :) This is not quite true. Old computers such as a 486 generally don't support disks that go over 8GB in the BIOS. Thus you would only see the first 8GB of the bigger disks, and the rest would be wasted. The limit is not imposed by FreeBSD however (not any limit that'll restrict you with hard disks you can buy), but by the BIOS of the computer you're installing on. Greetings, Sebastiaan van Erk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message