Re: OpenStep & harddisk capacity

[Stefan Böhringer]

Hi,

I've not had any problems with disks up to 20GB (and never tested
beyond). However, NeXTStep/Openstep do not support partitions larger
than 2 GB. You may allocate a DOS parition larger than 2GB which NS/OS
will then partition into chunks of 2GB internally, but I never succeeded
with this. I used the 2GB I got and used vmount to mount another 2GB of
vfat (DOS) partition (beware that vmount has a 4GB limit counted from
the start of the disk). If you have several HDs you can use 4GB for
NS/OS on each of them at least.

Best wishes,

        Stefan

On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 23:30, Richard van Paasen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an OpenStep 4.2 system running on a AMD K6 system. Currently I have
> a 800 MB harddisk on which I installed OpenStep. However, I need more space.
> Does anyone have experience with mounting large disks in OpenStep? I plan to
> buy a 20 GB disk but before doing so, I'd like to know if OpenStep will 
> be able
> to access it.