From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 10 17:44:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA08516 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:44:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from outcast.media-net.net (outcast.media-net.net [206.52.136.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA08511 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:44:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chrisj@outcast.media-net.net) Received: from localhost (chrisj@localhost) by outcast.media-net.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA00363 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:49:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chrisj@outcast.media-net.net) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:49:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: installation question Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG im tring to install FreeBSD on a second box here. the main HD that we are using in this system is a WD caviar 34000 the drive parameters for it are 7752cyl 16heads 63spt. when we go to install to this drive the Freebsd fdisk editor will not get the correct parameters from the Bios, it reads them as 500 something for the cyls and then gets the heads and spts correct hence it only things that the drive is in the 2g range when it is really a 4 gig drive. The bios is able to autodetect the correct parameters from the drive and is useing LBA. I've also tried creating a small dos partion on the drive as per a sugestion in the Complete Freebsd with no luck. Anyone have any other ideas or thoughts? Thanks Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message