Re: Hard disk support in v2.2.7
Nathan,
I ended up using Debian fdisk. However, first I had to boot DOS
and create a small primary partition, and then boot Debian.
This is how fdisk was able to detect 4095 cylinders. But
cfdisk kept reporting 2Gb space, and it was not usable.
Weird, isn't? Anyway, I should be OK now. Thanks for your
reply.
Carlos Ross
----- 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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> Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
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