From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 3 10:13:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA20354 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 May 1996 10:13:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ian.iafrica.com (root@ian.iafrica.com [196.7.0.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA20346 for ; Fri, 3 May 1996 10:13:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ian.iafrica.com (khetan@ian.iafrica.com [196.7.0.130]) by ian.iafrica.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA04706; Fri, 3 May 1996 19:12:59 +0200 (SAT) Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 19:12:58 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: questions@freebsd.org cc: iang@iafrica.com Subject: FreeBSD installation query Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello all. I have a Compaq 486 DX4/120 with 32mb RAM and a Seagate 340 mb HDD and a Quantum Fireball 1080 mb HDD (both IDE) with a Adaptec 6360 card with a NEC 6x CD-ROM drive. I have been running FreeBSD 2.1R for quite a while now and am running out of disk space. This affects you how ? I am getting there.... :) Up until now FreeBSD 2.1 has been installed on the 340mb HDD, but this is getting too small, as I want to "upgrade" to stable and get some more packages, etc on. I now want to scrap the Win95 installation (i.e halve it and install BSD on 500 mb of it and use the 340 as a general FreeBSD drive for the sources, etc), but have one little problem : my bios is pre-enhanced IDE, so doesn't recognise (at least in DOS!) anything greater than 500mb. I installed Disk Manager (with some overlay) and the drive worked fine. My query is this : do I need to do something similar when I start from scratch and install FreeBSD 2.1 on this drive i.e. do I still need this overlay software ? If so, is there a FreeBSD-friendly alternative ? If not, what solution do you have ? Compaq do not have a upgraded BIOS and I cannot pop the chip out. Any solution(s) ? --- Khetan Gajjar Visit at http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ UUNet-Internet Africa Operations help@iafrica.com or 0800-030-002