Re: 5.0 install help - slicing disk problems

2003-01-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
dennis wrote: [ ... ] Are these problems related to the new-ness of my mobo and chipset or am I just doing something wrong? Is there a work around for the problem? I want to dedicate the entire disk to the freebsd installation. Try using MS-DOS' FDISK to create your partitions, and see whether

5.0 install help - slicing disk problems

2003-01-27 Thread dennis
Hello, I am trying to install freebsd 5.0 on a Maxtor 52049U4 20G hard drive. The disk is slaved on ide0. The fdisk will not let me create a slice larger than 2G. Further more I can not create any number of slices totaling more than 2G. The mobo is a MSI KT4 ulta with a VIA KT400 chipset.