Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:15:22 -0700 From: "Roop Nanuwz" <roopn@home.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Large hard drive... Message-ID: <000a01c03afc$a689eb40$0201a8c0@carpoolbc.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C03AC1.B5F056E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 from CD onto a 30GB maxtor (7200RPM) = hard drive. The hard drive is partitioned into 28GB and 2GB.. the 28GB = are used by Win98 (FAT32) and the 2GB partition is free.. I'm trying to = install FreeBSD onto the 2GB partition, but the install proggie only = recognizes the first 2GB which is part of the win98 partition.. is there = a kernel feature i have add before it recognizes the large hard drive? = or is there something else I need to do before I can install BSD onto = the end of the drive like this? Any help would be appreciated.. thanks Roop ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C03AC1.B5F056E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4207.2601" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 from = CD onto a=20 30GB maxtor (7200RPM) hard drive. The hard drive is partitioned into = 28GB and=20 2GB.. the 28GB are used by Win98 (FAT32) and the 2GB partition is free.. = I'm=20 trying to install FreeBSD onto the 2GB partition, but the install = proggie only=20 recognizes the first 2GB which is part of the win98 partition.. is there = a=20 kernel feature i have add before it recognizes the large hard drive? or = is there=20 something else I need to do before I can install BSD onto the end of the = drive=20 like this? Any help would be appreciated.. thanks</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Roop</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C03AC1.B5F056E0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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