From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 22 13:44:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA27184 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:44:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sbservices.com ([207.51.66.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA27169 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:44:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@sbservices.com) Received: from thoth.sbservices.com (root@thoth.sbservices.com [199.174.17.20]) by sbservices.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id QAA23546 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:43:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from site1s1.sbservices.com (site1.sbservices.com [169.1.160.40]) by thoth.sbservices.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA01361 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:41:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: by site1s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:43:49 -0400 Message-ID: <29C83908FF4FD2118D2C00A0C90FCB4408738A@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels - SSG To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Moving to a new harddrive. Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:43:47 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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