From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 8 12:56:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from penkovsky.complexsys.net (cn863530-a.newcas1.de.home.com [24.40.15.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E995937B503 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 12:56:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by penkovsky.complexsys.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id E2AA22BD58; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 11:58:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from penkovsky (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by penkovsky.complexsys.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE49923DC7 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 11:58:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "Philip R. Moyer" Reply-To: prm@complexsys.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 4.1.1 doesn't see whole disk at install Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 11:57:59 -0400 Message-Id: <20001008155804.E2AA22BD58@penkovsky.complexsys.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've got two drives in my system (currently running RedHat 7.0). The first is an 8 Gig Maxtor, which is the IDE master. The second is a WD 30 Gig EIDE drive, which is the slave. Under Linux, you set the BIOS to configure the master, so the system can boot, and then it ignores the BIOS settings when it uses the second drive. I downloaded the 4.1.1-Release CD image, burned a CD, and booted it up. The install process starts, and when I partition disks, the first, ad0, comes up just fine; I tell it to use the whole disk and install the boot manager in the MBR. The second disk, though, appears to be 2 Gig, with CHS 4363/16/63. I reset the drive geometry in fdisk with the G command, and enter 59598/16/63 (the settings from the Linux installation). Fdisk still won't let me create a big slice on the disk. How should I configure this disk so I can use all the space? I checked back through the archives, and almost every message I find says, "yep, FreeBSD supports big disks. Have fun." Well, something like that. :-) Any advice will be appreciated. Cheers, Phil To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message