From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 20:36:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA05617 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 May 1996 20:36:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA05611 for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 20:36:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA28915; Mon, 6 May 1996 20:40:12 -0700 Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 20:40:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Khetan Gajjar cc: questions@freebsd.org, iang@iafrica.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation query In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 3 May 1996, Khetan Gajjar wrote: > I have a Compaq 486 DX4/120 with 32mb RAM and a Seagate 340 mb HDD and a > Quantum Fireball 1080 mb HDD (both IDE) with a Adaptec 6360 card with a > NEC 6x CD-ROM drive. I have been running FreeBSD 2.1R for quite a while > now and am running out of disk space. This affects you how ? > > I am getting there.... :) > > Up until now FreeBSD 2.1 has been installed on the 340mb HDD, but > this is getting too small, as I want to "upgrade" to stable and get some > more packages, etc on. I now want to scrap the Win95 installation (i.e > halve it and install BSD on 500 mb of it and use the 340 as a general > FreeBSD drive for the sources, etc), but have one little > problem : my bios is pre-enhanced IDE, so doesn't recognise (at least in > DOS!) anything greater than 500mb. Okay. > I installed Disk Manager (with some overlay) and the drive worked fine. > My query is this : do I need to do something similar when I start > from scratch and install FreeBSD 2.1 on this drive i.e. do I still > need this overlay software ? If so, is there a FreeBSD-friendly > alternative ? If not, what solution do you have ? Compaq do not > have a upgraded BIOS and I cannot pop the chip out. Yes, you still need it. Yes, it can stay there and not interfere, from what I understand. If you need a boot manager, use the OS-BS beta; from what I also understand it can work around Disk Manager. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major