From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 12: 7:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.aracnet.com (mail3.aracnet.com [216.99.193.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBAC137C11D for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 12:07:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail3.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA19903; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 12:07:42 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id MAA17983; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 12:07:39 -0700 Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 12:07:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Bill Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a REAL OLD system help please In-Reply-To: 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 > I am almost positive its the 10 gig HD in it thaqts causing the > problem. Like I said its a old system, doesnt even have pci slots. I took > a look in BIOS tyo see if I could set the HD to LBA, no such luck. > > Now, I do have some software that I got with the drive, to make old > systems see large drives, Maxtor HD Max or something, but I am almost sure > that wont work with freebsd. Set the hard drive in regular or 'normal' mode. DOS/BIOS will still only reconize the minimum. Which is fine, partition the drive out to the max it will reconize. FreeBSD will see the rest of the drive later on and you can slice it up or mount it all under /usr or something like that. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message