Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:27:13 -0500 (EST) From: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com> To: Mike Loiterman <mike@ascendency.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Adding additional HD space Message-ID: <20021111201942.S98539-100000@radzinschi.com> In-Reply-To: <000f01c2890b$677c7350$0302a8c0@mike>
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On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Mike Loiterman wrote: > > > The 10 GB Hard Disk should have a "BIOS Limitation" jumper that > > will make the BIOS think it is a 508 MB drive. Set that jumper, > > and the system should boot. > > I thought so too. I tried setting it, but I couldn't get it to boot. > I guess the drive *could* be damaged, but I just pulled it out of a > Windows box where it was working fine. It still has XP on it. Would > that make a difference? I never reformatted it after I pulled it > out. > You might want to check the BIOS settings. Instead of having it "autodetect" the hard disk, for example, set it to the highest that the hard disk's documentation suggests. > > Once you have that drive in there, you could create the file system > > structure on it however you want, but place the / and /boot > > partitions below 500 MB so that the system will boot when you take > > out the old drive. > > Do you mean make the / and /boot partitions *less* then 500 MB or > *below*. If you mean below, I'm not sure how to do that. Make the / and /boot partitions the first ones, and make them LESS than 500 MB, combined. Technically, the / partition includes /boot, but so you could get away with just making a / partition. Also, the limit is 504 MB, but I prefer to make / around 256 MB. > > Note that you will have to tell fdisk the correct geometry of the > > disk. > > I don't know how to do this or at least I don't remeber. When you run fdisk, you can set the correct geometry. If you are not comfortable with fdisk, then you can just run /stand/sysinstall and do it from there. Sysinstall is the FreeBSD installer, and has a menu driven partition feature. You can select it under "Configure," then "Fdisk" and "Label" appropriately. > > Otherwise, create the partitions exactly how you have them on your > > 2 GB drive, making them larger as you wish, and dump + restore the > > files from one disk to the other. > > When you say "dump + restore" you mean do a level 0 dump and then a > restore? Is that correct? Dump level 0 is the correct one, but in your particular case, you may want to use tar instead. It is up to you. Marco Radzinschi E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." -- Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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