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Subject: Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB
From: David Gethings <davidg@pipex.net>
To: Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de>
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On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 12:26, Konrad Heuer wrote:
> 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.
Hi Konrad,

That thought did cross my mind after I sent the email out. If I must
then I will do this, but I would rather be able to do this from within
the FreeBSD install.

Regards

Dg


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