Re: Hard disk support in v2.2.7
Sounds like you have an old version of Debian, in no case should you
start with anything below 3.0 -- try that and see if it works.
on Saturday 11/23/2002 Carlos Ross(carlos_ross@hotmail.com) wrote
> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
> > It doesn't matter what you are doing, emacs is always overkill.
> > -- Stephen J. Carpenter
> >
>
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