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Date:      Fri, 12 Jan 1990 13:58:30 -0600
From:      "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
To:        "Bill" <bwoods2@uswest.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on a REAL OLD system help please
Message-ID:  <00e301b42776$5ae928e0$c4ebfea9@josh>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007051043390.1655-100000@alpha.gplsucks.org>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill" <bwoods2@uswest.net>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 11:52 AM
Subject: FreeBSD on a REAL OLD system help please


> I have been given a REAL OLD P100 w/32 megs memory, so I think cool, small
> home lan mail server. Well I happen to have this 10gig ide hanging around,
> that I am not useing,(eveyrthing else I have is SCSI) so I pop it in,
> change BIOS to autodetect the HD and proceed to HD install. The partition
> scheme is / is 400, /var is 2gig, /usr is 7gig and rest swap. Well,
> anyway, the ftp install goes fine , I goto reboot and NADA, it starts to
> boot and the spinner just stops.......wont boot for crap.
>
> I am almost positive its the 10 gig HD in it thaqts causing the
> problem. Like I said its a old system, doesnt even have pci slots. I took
> a look in BIOS tyo see if I could set the HD to LBA, no such luck.
>
> Now, I do have some software that I got with the drive, to make old
> systems see large drives, Maxtor HD Max or something, but I am almost sure
> that wont work with freebsd.
>
> So, any gurus have any suggestions for me on how to get this to work...
>
Perhaps there is a BIOS flash for the motherboard that will let it see the
drive as a 8.4gig anyways.

Josh



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