Date: 06 Jan 2000 18:28:41 -0500 From: Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation of freebsd on Harddisk > 8GB Message-ID: <r1z7lhm2312.fsf@eddie.cdf> References: <NBBBIGDDNKPOABGJBGDDCEIBCBAA.conni@dr-computer.com>
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"Conni" <conni@dr-computer.com> writes: > there is a problem installing freebsd on Harddisks > > 8GB. Unfortunately it is nearly impossible to buy a new harddisk > smaller than 13GB. I found a workaround in creating more than one > slice each of them smaller than 8GB but this workaround ends at > 32GB. I use actually on my win98 machine in my Hardware-Shop the > huge IBM 37GB Harddisk and hopefully look forward that there will be > a way to use such a disk under freebsd... HIi, Conni: I've just installed FreeBSD in a single slice on a 13GB HD w/o a glitch. Before that, on another box, I created a single slice on a 19.7GB HD, also without any problems. What makes you think that the limitation you talk about exists? -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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