Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:35:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Dave Bodenstab <imdave@mcs.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange disk geometry during install Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970809143442.6064U-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199708081741.MAA04286@imdave.pr.mcs.net>
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On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Dave Bodenstab wrote: > Next I decided to try putting FreeBSD in the first (large) partition, > with dos at the end of the disk. I thought that with LBA support, I might > get away with this. When I went back to dos' fdisk, it now reported only > 504M total space !!! What's going on? Turn LBA off. If you change this setting you have to refresh your partition table's geometries, and I don't know how to do that programmaitcally. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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