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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > It doesn't matter what you are doing, emacs is always overkill. > -- Stephen J. Carpenter > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
