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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!nntp04.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news.injersey.com!news From: Chris Rehbein <crehbein@injersey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD on > 500mb HDDs Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 15:08:29 -0400 Organization: Ocean Computer Group Lines: 12 Message-ID: <322347AD.344@injersey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp061-nept.injersey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5Gold (Win95; I) For some reason, (I am a FreeBSD newbie) the installation for FreeBSD changes my FDISK partitioned 1.7gb Quantum HDD from one boot-level 426mb partition (for FreeBSD) and one extended DOS partition with 3 equal partitions with the remaining disk space to one 24 mb FreeBSD partition and leaves the rest of the HDD (only 480mb!!!) unavailable. Is this caused by an incompatibility with FreeBSD and my DTC EIDE hard card, or is it just a FreeBSD shortcoming? I'm running Win95 on a C drive, running (trying, FreeBSD won't install naturally on 24mb) FreeBSD on D: bootable partitioned drive. Also, if someone can point me to a FAQ or something that assists in repartitioning a hard drive with an existing FAT partition for FreeBSD, that would be very helpful... CRehbein