Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 12:06:02 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> To: rob <europax@home.com> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Matt Rudderham <matt@researcher.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20001008.12060200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> In-Reply-To: <39DF6263.FBCBA866@home.com> References: <14815.42726.976853.807442@guru.mired.org> <39DF6263.FBCBA866@home.com>
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[probably this is appropriate to -chat] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 10/7/00, 6:50:27 PM, rob <europax@home.com> wrote regarding Re:=20 Installing FreeBSD?: > I had to give cylinder numbers with OpenBSD. I sat there with a > calculator turning cylinders and sectors into Mb, but it gives you=20 lots > of time for really thinking about your partitioning :) Rob I had problems to install OpenBSD across 2 disks on my three HDs=20 workstation. I *had* to specify "head 1" in order to succeed. I seem=20 to understand that the OpenBSD-2.7 installer misinterprets disk=20 geometries, especially when dealing with complex layouts (eg 3 HDs and=20 a bunch of slices already present on the disks). Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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