Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 09:39:00 +0800 From: Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inquiry informations from Italy Message-ID: <200305260850.49021.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> In-Reply-To: <074b01c322d7$822b61a0$499b1b97@jb2070> References: <074b01c322d7$822b61a0$499b1b97@jb2070>
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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
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