Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 13:42:39 +0200 From: "Thomas" <tompad@tin.it> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: <001401c43816$3b8c1a50$bd6c7550@thomasinternet>
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Hi there: my name is Thomas and I'm a complete FreeBSD newbie, a = nightmare for you, I guess... I'm trying to install your last version of = FBSD but I keep on encountering a problem which 15 years spent with DOS = and Windows don't help me to solve: at a point during installation I'm = told roughly what follows warning: a geometry of 77578/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect......... use the = (G)eometry command...... you need to enter whatever your Bios thinks the geometry is! For IDE = it's what you were told in the Bios setup............. well, the Bios tells me my disk is cyl 19166 h 16 sect 255, so I tried = to enter these values using the G command, but it didn't work, the = message above appeared again (with the new values). My disk is a simple = 40Gb Maxtor and the Bios appears to read it correctly...=20 Could you please give me a hand? No hurry at all, of course, I'm just = learning... If you need more precise information about processor, RAM and so on, = just let me know. Thanks a lot Thomas
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