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Re: Hard disk support in v2.2.7



On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 04:34:34PM -0500, Carlos Ross wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have an 8.6Gb hard disk and my BIOS suports large disks, but my
> version of Debian can only see 2Gb. I have installed Windows 2000
> by itself and it is able to use the entire 8.6Gb disk space; I then installed
> QNX 6.1 by itself as a test,  and it was also able to use the entire disk space.
> Is there an update to make Debian work with large disks?

Did you use cfdisk to partition your disk?  Try fdisk (the linux
fdisk) instead.  alt-f2 from the install welcome screen will yield a
shell from whence you can run fdisk.

Setting reply-to: to debian-user as this question belongs there.

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