From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 20 18:17:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc2.bc.home.com (mail2.rdc2.bc.home.com [24.2.10.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B75A737B479 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:17:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wkstn ([24.113.176.126]) by mail2.rdc2.bc.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20001021011746.CQHO24217.mail2.rdc2.bc.home.com@wkstn> for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:17:46 -0700 Message-ID: <000a01c03afc$a689eb40$0201a8c0@carpoolbc.com> From: "Roop Nanuwz" To: Subject: Large hard drive... Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:15:22 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0007_01C03AC1.B5F056E0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C03AC1.B5F056E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 from CD onto a 30GB maxtor (7200RPM) = hard drive. The hard drive is partitioned into 28GB and 2GB.. the 28GB = are used by Win98 (FAT32) and the 2GB partition is free.. I'm trying to = install FreeBSD onto the 2GB partition, but the install proggie only = recognizes the first 2GB which is part of the win98 partition.. is there = a kernel feature i have add before it recognizes the large hard drive? = or is there something else I need to do before I can install BSD onto = the end of the drive like this? Any help would be appreciated.. thanks Roop ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C03AC1.B5F056E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 from = CD onto a=20 30GB maxtor (7200RPM) hard drive. The hard drive is partitioned into = 28GB and=20 2GB.. the 28GB are used by Win98 (FAT32) and the 2GB partition is free.. = I'm=20 trying to install FreeBSD onto the 2GB partition, but the install = proggie only=20 recognizes the first 2GB which is part of the win98 partition.. is there = a=20 kernel feature i have add before it recognizes the large hard drive? or = is there=20 something else I need to do before I can install BSD onto the end of the = drive=20 like this? Any help would be appreciated.. thanks

Roop

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