From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 10 14:47:41 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA08583 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 14:47:41 -0700 Received: from Gillis.mdc.com (GILLIS.MDC.COM [130.38.65.101]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA08549 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 14:47:27 -0700 From: Postmaster@Gillis.mdc.com Date: Mon, 10 Apr 95 16:41:27 PDT Subject: FreeBSD .vs. ACER To: questions@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: Chameleon - TCP/IP for Windows by NetManage, Inc. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have an ACER 75MHz Pentium, 8 Meg RAM,1.2Gig HD, PCI video, & PCI HD controller. My question is this. When I try to load FreeBSD I get warning messages about my HD, and when I get to the DISKLABEL part I only have 2 Meg available for my root. I know this is not the case because I gave FreeBSD 400 Meg (leaving 800 Meg for DOS) during the FDISK. If I disable extended addressing in my CMOS setup, I still get the FreeBSD warning message during bootup/install but I can now set my root size during DISKLABLE to 20 Meg. But now it looks like DOS doesn't understand anything greater than 500Meg. What am I doing wrong? Please help. NOTE: My return mail address is al@hpanalog.mdc.com Thank You, Alan Gillis