Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB

2002-12-14 Thread John Bleichert
On 13 Dec 2002, David Gethings wrote: > Date: 13 Dec 2002 17:15:17 + > From: David Gethings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB > > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 14

Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB

2002-12-13 Thread David Gethings
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 14:41, John Bleichert wrote: > This can't be a bug or limitation in FreeBSD's fdisk, it must be a quirk > in your hardware (we've all seen them hehe!). Since 4.5, I've had FreeBSD > installed on several boxes with enormous hard drives in various > partitioning schemes with

Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB

2002-12-13 Thread John Bleichert
On 13 Dec 2002, David Gethings wrote: > Subject: Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB > > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 12:26, Konrad Heuer wrote: > > On 13 Dec 2002, David Gethings wrote: > > > > > If I can't get this to work I'm going to have to use Linux a

Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB

2002-12-13 Thread David Gethings
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 12:26, Konrad Heuer wrote: > On 13 Dec 2002, David Gethings wrote: > > > If I can't get this to work I'm going to have to use Linux as I know > > this works. :( > > If you know Linux fdisk recognizing the disk correctly, you can try to use > Linux fdisk to create a FreeBSD p

Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB

2002-12-13 Thread Konrad Heuer
On 13 Dec 2002, David Gethings wrote: > If I can't get this to work I'm going to have to use Linux as I know > this works. :( If you know Linux fdisk recognizing the disk correctly, you can try to use Linux fdisk to create a FreeBSD partition, can't you? You should than be able to use the partit