From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 25 18:41:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8090F37B401 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 18:41:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msr26.hinet.net (msr26.hinet.net [168.95.4.126]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A69643F85 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 18:41:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net) Received: from pro.utopia.com (61-227-219-50.HINET-IP.hinet.net [61.227.219.50]) by msr26.hinet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA06156 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 09:41:52 +0800 (CST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Robert Storey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 09:39:00 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <074b01c322d7$822b61a0$499b1b97@jb2070> In-Reply-To: <074b01c322d7$822b61a0$499b1b97@jb2070> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200305260850.49021.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> Subject: Re: Inquiry informations from Italy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 01:41:04 -0000 On Monday 26 May 2003 00:05, jb2070 wrote: > Hi. How are you? > I have a problem. I hope that you can help me. > I have an old PC with some new Hard-Disk 40/60/80 Gigabyte, but my moth= er > board can see only the first 8 GB. > What I can do to use the space in the Hard-Disk Interly??? > I hope also to install several Operative System in the same Hard-Disk. = Yuo > can give me some suggests?? > Sorry for my bad English and thank you for your help. > Greetings from italy > Sergio You aren't giving us much information, but I would guess your problem is = one=20 of two possibilities: 1) Old BIOS. In that case, you'll have to update the BIOS, and you might = need=20 a computer shop to help you do that. 2) There's nothing wrong with the motherboard, BIOS, or hard disk, it's j= ust=20 that you're using an older version of Windows/DOS with the FAT16 filesyst= em,=20 and this cannot support more than 8 GB. In that case, all you have to do = is=20 install FreeBSD and it will just work - FreeBSD's filesystem does not suf= fer=20 from this 8 GB limit. However, FreeBSD can only be installed in a primary= =20 partition, so if you've already used up the four primary partitions, you'= ll=20 have to delete one of them. regards, Robert