From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 13 6:55:19 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 BBBDD37B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 06:55:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F29F643ED1 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 06:55:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 4778A4FC8A; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:41:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FC8A4A0F; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:41:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:41:06 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: David Gethings Cc: Konrad Heuer , Subject: Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB In-Reply-To: <1039789953.11203.61.camel@trigger.highway.co.uk> Message-ID: 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: > 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