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Date:      Wed, 3 Mar 1999 17:45:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Jason A. Pfeil" <pfeil@cs.fsu.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installation onto LARGE HD (10.1GB) (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.9903031744460.11283-100000@xi>

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Please, can someone get back to me on this?

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 Jason A. Pfeil                               pfeil@cs.fsu.edu 
 Information Systems Developer                jpfeil@lsi.fsu.edu
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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:37:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Jason A. Pfeil <pfeil@cs.fsu.edu>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Installation onto LARGE HD (10.1GB) (fwd)



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 Jason A. Pfeil                               pfeil@cs.fsu.edu 
 Information Systems Developer                jpfeil@lsi.fsu.edu
 CASDL                                        (850)644-8014; fax: (850)644-4952
 Learning Systems Institute                   University Center C-3527
 http://idl.fsu.edu                           Tallahassee, FL  32306-2540

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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:09:00 -0500
From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>
To: pfeil@nu.cs.fsu.edu
Subject: Re: Installation onto LARGE HD (10.1GB)

Jason Pfeil wrote:
> 
> To Whom it May Concern:
> 
> I am an avid and very experienced Linux user and would like to try the
> other kid on the block -- FreeBSD.  I have a new drive, but when I try
> to create BSD slices in a partition whose type I changed to freebsd from
> within the installation, it tells me that I cannot do that.  Here are
> the results from fdisk /dev/hdc (the HD) under Linux:
> 
> < -- begin transcript -- >
> # fdisk /dev/hdc
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 19650.
> This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
>    (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> 
> Command (m for help): p
> 
> Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 19650 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Begin    Start      End    Blocks    Id    System
> /dev/hdc1             1        1     2081   1048792+   83    Linux
> native
> /dev/hdc2          2048     2082     6243   2097648    83    Linux
> native
> /dev/hdc3          6144     6244    10405   2097648    83    Linux
> native
> /dev/hdc4         10240    10406    19650   4659480     5    Extended
> 
> Command (m for help): q
> < -- end transcript -- >
> 
> I am trying to change the type of partition /dev/hdc1 (linux naming) to
> freebsd under the freebsd installation and create a slice for swap and a
> slice for a partition.  Unfortunately, I get an error saying that I
> can't create the partition.  LBA is on under the BIOS, and Linux has no
> problems with the drive.  This is the third HD in my system and
> therefore LILO will not be running off of it so it shouldn't be limited
> by the BIOS when booting freebsd off of this partition.  One option I
> haven't tried, but was hoping you would have a better solution, was to
> copy off the data I already have on the drive, do a low-level format to
> erase everything and see if I can coerce LBA under my BIOS to reduce the
> cylinder to <= 1024 by increasing the number of heads.  Do you have ANY
> other solution?
> 
> Thank you for your time.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Jason A. Pfeil
Oooops! Wrong address! This is the documentation project.
E-mail your mail to <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> which will
(probably) answer your question in less than 48 hours.
Thank You
-- 
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