Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 00:07:08 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Jeff Feller" <jeff@bitz.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install -- FDISK Message-ID: <20020716040708.440EDBB2C@sakura.fake.com> In-Reply-To: <004e01c22c52$f1ab48f0$a500a8c0@zanardi> References: <004e01c22c52$f1ab48f0$a500a8c0@zanardi>
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On Monday 15 July 2002 06:57 pm, Jeff Feller wrote:
| I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.6 on a Pentium 133 with a Western Digital
| 40 GB Hard Drive (WD400BB). The BIOS and everywhere else see's it as a 40
| GB drive but when I get into FreeBSD's FDISK part it thinks it's a 2 GB
| drive.
|
| I hooked up an 8 GB and FreeBSD thinks THAT is an 8 GB... So must be a
| problem with the 40 GB? Any ideas? Suggestions?
|
| I flashed my bios to the newest version. It's an ASUS TXP4 motherboard if
| that matters. Thanks in advance for any help!
This might sound a little odd, but my experience is that the Linux version of
disk is far superior to anybody else's. You might try using hte Linux fdisk
to do the initial fdisk part and then exit from the Linux installer and see
whehter FreeBSD now sees a proper set of partitions for the disklabel part of
the install.
| Jeff Feller
PS: I have up to 80G drives on FreeBSD (of course that one's SCSI) including
a 45G IDE drive, so it's definately not a generalized problem.
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