Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 03:19:12 From: "george vagner" <kf7nn@hotmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: larger Ide drive and 4.0 Message-ID: <F3pqhNPPzQT456UnHAa00002fd1@hotmail.com>
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I am trying to install 4.0 from cdrom onto a maxtor 40.1 gig drive, my mb is a FIC socket 7 style with a pretty new bios, there is no update for the bios yet. I am not new to installations I have about 6 or 7 freebsd machines running. I tried using both dangerously dedicated and compatible modes with the following results dangerously dedicated gives boot 0:ad(0,a)/kernel which is correct but will not boot. compatible mode gives Missing operating system slices are as follows 500M /, 500M /var, 200 M /swap, 10000M /usr leaving 28.8 gig for /web I have another machine exactly the same and i think i had to split it up into 20 gig partitions before i could install. this is a maxtor 40.1 gig drive. the bios does detect the correct size of the disk in bootup. so i want to ask if 4.0 has a limit on bootable IDE partitions? I know its old 4.0 but my 4.1 cd got wrecked and i will cvsup as soon as i get it to install. thanks George _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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