From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 15 16:09:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02424 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:09:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailgate.telusplanet.net (mailgate.telusplanet.net [199.185.220.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02416 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:09:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gbauer@telusplanet.net) Received: from clgrps05.agt.net ([198.161.156.16]:47036 "EHLO clgrps05.agt.net" ident: "IDENT-NOT-QUERIED [port 47036]") by mailgate.telusplanet.net with ESMTP id <50388-16149>; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 17:08:50 -0600 Received: from DEWALD ([207.34.87.90]) by mail.telusplanet.net with SMTP id <268168-5843>; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 17:08:08 -0600 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19980715231440.0095db40@mail.telusplanet.net> X-Sender: gbauer@mail.telusplanet.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 17:14:40 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Greg Bauer Subject: FreeBSD installation Drive Geometry Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have recently purchased the Complete FreeBSD package(2.2.6). I am installing it on a pentium 166 with 32 Mb ram. I have a Western Digitial hard drive WDC AC32500H (4960cyl, 16hd, 63 spt). I want to share the drive with Windows NT 4.0 and dos 6.22. I have the drive partitioned with a 20 MB dos partition at the start next free space of 250MB (for freeBSD), and the remainder of the drive is and extended dos partition, with several logical drives. When I boot 2.2.6 from a floppy it detects the drive geometry wd0 as 4960,16,63 (which is the actual drive geometry). I can obtain the bios translated geometry as 619,128,63 with pfdisk. I the novice setup the fdisk partition editor has 620,128,63. I assume this is because pfdisk start numbering from 0 and fdisk starts numbering from 1? On page 36 of the book it state to "Use the drive geometry specified on the disk itself...". However, in the novice setup help menu (in the section "Installing Boot manager for drive wd0") it states "...(pfdisk) will report the geometry that dos sees which is generally the correct one". Which geometry is the correct on to uses when installing FreeBSD? Thanks Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message