From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 6:22:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76EF237B401 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 06:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC57A43E8A for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 06:22:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A277378500B6; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 06:21:59 -0700 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 06:22:02 -0700 From: Chip Wiegand To: "Jack L. Stone" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: quick help-new install complains about the hard drive geometry Message-Id: <20021023062202.0cc61f73.chip@wiegand.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20021022190907.014efb90@mail.sage-one.net> References: <20021022163454.6c0522bf.chip@wiegand.org> <3.0.5.32.20021022190907.014efb90@mail.sage-one.net> Organization: Alternative Operating Systems X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jack L. Stone wrote this stuff on Tue, 22 Oct 2002 19:09:07 -0500: > At 04:34 PM 10.22.2002 -0700, Chip Wiegand wrote: > >I am setting up a brand new system, has a 40gig hard drive. FBSD4.7 > >complains about the geometry being incorrect, to use the G command > >to change it. I did that, set it to exactly what the BIOS shows for > >the drive, and it still claims the numbers are incorrect. What do I > >do now? > > > >-- > >Chip > > > > Have you tried ignoring the complaint and finishing the FDISKing and > Labeling....? That will probably work okay. > > Best regards, > Jack L. Stone, I got it installed - first I created a 5gig partition and installed win2000 (for games), then installed FreeBSD on the remaining 35gigs and it had no complaint at all. I don't know why it didn't like the full 40gig drive, but it's working now, sure is fast :), I'm gonna have to replace all my old boxes with these. -- Chip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message