From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 6 15:29:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marvin.cdf.toronto.edu (marvin.cdf.toronto.edu [128.100.31.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26AFC15798 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:29:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from g9genarc@cdf.toronto.edu) Received: by marvin.cdf.toronto.edu (Postfix, from userid 11592) id F0CF94EC2; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 18:28:41 -0500 (EST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation of freebsd on Harddisk > 8GB References: From: Arcady Genkin Date: 06 Jan 2000 18:28:41 -0500 Message-ID: Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Conni" 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