From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 11:16:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA06562 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 11:16:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA06537 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 11:16:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id KAA28336 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 10:14:37 -0800 Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA05051; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 10:15:07 -0800 Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 10:15:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: john@starfire.mn.org cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: invalid partition table after installation In-Reply-To: <199603080427.WAA27407@starfire.mn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 7 Mar 1996 john@starfire.mn.org wrote: > I am using the updated boot floppy image for FreeBSD-2.1.0-RELEASE, > and I can't seem to be able to install on a SCSI drive without > first using DOS to create a partition (FDISK) table. Am I missing > the boat, or what? My guess here is a geometry problem. Creating the partition is allowing install to get the proper geometry for the disk. Which is the recommended method; create a small DOS partition and kill it when you create the FreeBSD partition in Install. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major