From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 11 11:47:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA21119 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 11:47:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA20885 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 11:47:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA16082; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 11:47:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 11:47:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Roger P. Johnson" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP! on drive Geometry and I just can't get it! Just can't! In-Reply-To: <199803111709.LAA00595@fep.hirshfields.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Roger P. Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > I must say that I am frustrated as hell on this one. I have been > trying off and on for the last 6 months trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.2 > onto a Seagate 1 GB SCSI-2 HD using Adaptec's 2940 or 2940AU card. > > I have monitored the mailing lists over the years, I have read the > FAQ's, the *only* way I can get FreeBSD to boot off of a 1GB disk is > if I format using DOS, put a 1 MB DOS partion on it, do a shared disk > installation, make FreeBSD the active parition and go with that. I > don't what @$@#$ DOS on it. The partition doesn't need to stick; just blow away the DOS partition you create in sysinstall and then install FreeBSD on everything else. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message