From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 17 21:01:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA03354 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:01:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA03343 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:01:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA05641; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:01:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:01:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Jonathan E. Lyons" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD w/ Older bios & hard drives greater than 500meg.. In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970917133725.006f22fc@midwest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Jonathan E. Lyons wrote: > My current BSD box is a 486/66 with an older bios. I was able to salvage > a 1 gig drive from another system and I'd like to use it in this older > computer, but I'm affaid the bios is pretty old, and probably only supports > drives under 500 meg, is there a work around for this? No workaround is needed; FreeBSD can deal with this. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo