Re: Hard disk support in v2.2.7
I have used cfdisk as this is automatically called during install,
and I also tried fdisk. Both behave the same way. Only
2GB of disk space is seen. I didn't have this problem with
the other two OS's that I tried.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan E Norman" <nnorman@incanus.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Cc: <carlos_ross@hotmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 4:57 PM
Subject: 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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