From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 15 21: 7:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0C3637B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 21:07:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (fe7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFFD343E65 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 21:07:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from sakura.fake.com ([66.26.254.93]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Tue, 16 Jul 2002 00:07:22 -0400 Received: by sakura.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 440EDBB2C; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 00:07:08 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: "Jeff Feller" , Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install -- FDISK Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 00:07:08 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <004e01c22c52$f1ab48f0$a500a8c0@zanardi> In-Reply-To: <004e01c22c52$f1ab48f0$a500a8c0@zanardi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020716040708.440EDBB2C@sakura.fake.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message