From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 20 20: 4:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F46A37B4C5 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 20:04:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA00851; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 20:00:27 -0700 Message-ID: <39F106CB.2FCBF65A@urx.com> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 20:00:27 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roop Nanuwz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large hard drive... References: <000a01c03afc$a689eb40$0201a8c0@carpoolbc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You will have better luck with 4.1 and your hardware arrangement. The / partition has to end before cylinder 1024, which is ~8.4GB using LBA, when you use anything before version 4.1. Kent > Roop Nanuwz wrote: > > 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message