Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:43:47 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels - SSG <ChrisMic@sbservices.com> To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Moving to a new harddrive. Message-ID: <29C83908FF4FD2118D2C00A0C90FCB4408738A@site2s1>
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Hello, I currently have FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE on a 1.6GB IDE harddrive. I am running out of space and have a 6.4 GB IDE drive I can use in the system. The 6.4 is from a computer that was running Windows 95b (FAT32). I currently have the 6.4 slaved off the 1.6. When FreeBSD boots up it reports the 6.4 drive as only being 1888 MB in size. I realize this is most likely a side effect of how it was partitioned in Windoze. I have in the BIOS noted that is was being recognized in "LBA" mode (I believe I read something here that this will not work). I forced the BIOS to recognize it in "LARGE" mode (which is what the 1st drive appears to be using) and that didn't make a difference. There is also a "NORMAL" mode which I do not believe I have tried yet, but I will do that tonight when I get home from work. Now to my questions: #1 What steps should I take to get the BSD machine to recognize all 6.4 GBs of space on the drive? #2 Would it be possible to partition the 6.4 (label it, etc...), copy everything from the 1.6 and then boot off the 6.4 w/o having to reinstall BSD and then all my software? (cp -Rp?) #3 Am I an idiot and missed something that was obviously in front of me? Thanks in advance, /* Christopher Michaels - SSG Corel Technical Support ChrisMic@sbservices.com */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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