From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 13 4:26:14 2002 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 2DDFE37B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 04:26:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.98.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E371943EA9 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 04:26:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id gBDCQ5sh045349; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:26:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer2@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.12.6/8.12.4/Submit) with ESMTP id gBDCQ4Me045346; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:26:05 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: gwdu60.gwdg.de: kheuer2 owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:26:04 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: David Gethings Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB In-Reply-To: <1039781332.11203.57.camel@trigger.highway.co.uk> Message-ID: <20021213132157.V40801-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On 13 Dec 2002, David Gethings wrote: > If I can't get this to work I'm going to have to use Linux as I know > this works. :( If you know Linux fdisk recognizing the disk correctly, you can try to use Linux fdisk to create a FreeBSD partition, can't you? You should than be able to use the partition withis FreeBSD sysinstall. I Know that this is not a real solution, but it may be a workaround. Regards Konrad Heuer (kheuer2@gwdg.de) ____ ___ _______ GWDG / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ Am Fassberg / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / 37077 Goettingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message