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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Keith Pitcher <kpitcher@weirdness.com>
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Subject: Re: Installation and problems with seagate HD #2
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On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Keith Pitcher wrote:

> Here is some more information on the problems I'm getting trying to
> install 2.2.5-release.
> 
> Board : TXPro Pentium PCI Chipset
> Pentium 166 MMX, 128 meg RAM
> 
> I'm using an adaptec AHA-2940 PCI SCSI adapter, freeBSD reports it as
> having Bios V1.23
> Scsi ID 0 is a toshiba CDROM
> Scsi ID 1 is a seagate Hawk 4XL 4.55 gig HD, # ST34555N/W
> 
> Upon startup FreeBSD reports avail mem : 125812736 (122864K bytes)

OK

> It fnds the devices fine, reports the CD has 4340 Megs

No, your hard disk has 4340MB. :-)

> I tried unsuccessfully to install twice, reformated a HD with the scsi
> tools, failed again.

Please be specific as to exactly what you're doing.  

It looks like you're playing with the geometry and corrupting the
disklabel.  Don't touch the gemoetry and allocate the entire disk in
sysinstall. 

FreeBSD version, install method, etc. would be helpful too.

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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