From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 17 21:22:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA04578 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:22:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cplkagan.globaleyes.net ([209.60.64.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA04566 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:22:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parrothd.globaleys.net (parrothd [192.0.0.29]) by cplkagan.globaleyes.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA03861; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 00:22:38 GMT Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19970917231921.006f98fc@midwest.net> X-Sender: parrothd@midwest.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Demo Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 23:19:21 -0500 To: Doug White From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" Subject: Re: FreeBSD w/ Older bios & hard drives greater than 500meg.. Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.3.32.19970917133725.006f22fc@midwest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > > >