Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:41:06 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: David Gethings <davidg@pipex.net> Cc: Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212130938370.11465-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <1039789953.11203.61.camel@trigger.highway.co.uk>
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On 13 Dec 2002, David Gethings wrote: > Subject: Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB > > 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 > This can't be a bug or limitation in FreeBSD's fdisk, it must be a quirk in your hardware (we've all seen them hehe!). Since 4.5, I've had FreeBSD installed on several boxes with enormous hard drives in various partitioning schemes without a glitch. I had issues once with OpenBSD wanting to be on a smaller partition, but never with FreeBSD. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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