I updated my BIOS and now all the 10.2GB is recognized.

So, I've got another problem. I'm trying to install NetBSD by FTP. So, 
after the download of all the sets, the computer freeze when it is 
extracting files. In the same computer, but with a 270MB HD (IBM), the 
installation process has no problem (the 10.2GB HD is apparently fine 
because other OS can be installed on it).

Any idea of what's this problem?

Thanks for everyone...

John Franklin wrote:

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> On Friday, September 13, 2002, at 12:33  PM, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote:
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>> I have a old machine here (Pentium 233 MHz + PCChips M575) and I'm 
>> trying to put a Seagate HD with 10.2GB to install NetBSD on it. 
>> However, the BIOS of this machine only recognize 8GB.
>>
>> How can I make the BIOS to recognize all the space of this HD?
>
>
> Unless the motherboard vendor has a BIOS update that corrects that, 
> you can't.  But that's ok.  If your root partition is completely 
> within the first 8G of space, then the bootloader (which uses BIOS 
> routines) can load the kernel.   The kernel doesn't use BIOS routines 
> and will be able to recognize the entire disk.
>
> jf
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> John Franklin
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