Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 23:19:21 -0500 From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD w/ Older bios & hard drives greater than 500meg.. Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970917231921.006f98fc@midwest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970917210058.5533K-100000@localhost> References: <3.0.3.32.19970917133725.006f22fc@midwest.net>
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Thanks, I knew that FreeBSD/Linux wouldn't have this problem, but I wanted to make sure before I re-installed over a 56k modem.... :) Thanks At 09:01 PM 9/17/97 -0700, Doug White wrote: >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 > > >
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