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Date:      Fri, 3 Apr 1998 19:12:40 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jason Sabella <jsabella@ic.sunysb.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980403191047.11299J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3525696D.45F20654@ic.sunysb.edu>

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On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Jason Sabella wrote:

> Hi Doug.  I only have the one hard 6.4 GIG hard drive.  I don't know
> what that "wd2" is.  Is that possibly a wrong partition?  Is there a way
> to change it to a different "wd" in the install program(if such a thing
> exists).  My current configuration is this:

You should be prompted before going into fdisk for which disk you want.

Post your boot message output again.

> But the installation program still says:
> Disk name:  wd2  <<-----
> Disk Geometry: 512 cyls/12 heads/32 sectors = 196608 sectors
> Offset    Size    End    Name    Ptype Desc    Subtype   Flags
> 0         32      31     -       6     unused  0
> 32        196192  196223 wd2s1   2     fat     6         =
> 196224    384     196607 -       6     unused  0

Hm, 196608 * 512 bytes == 100663296 bytes, or a 100mb drive.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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