From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Oct 8 4: 5:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from relay2.inwind.it (relay2.inwind.it [212.141.53.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0C9637B66C for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 04:05:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (62.98.163.106) by relay2.inwind.it (5.1.046) id 39CB0979002E3B86; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 13:05:02 +0200 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 12:06:02 GMT Message-ID: <20001008.12060200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD? To: rob Cc: Mike Meyer , Matt Rudderham , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <39DF6263.FBCBA866@home.com> References: <14815.42726.976853.807442@guru.mired.org> <39DF6263.FBCBA866@home.com> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [probably this is appropriate to -chat] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 10/7/00, 6:50:27 PM, rob 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