Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 12:46:47 -0500 From: Nathan Denny <SCHCATS@siu.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Hark! Magnetic Storage and Mr. Euclid. Message-ID: <31F3BE87.5C5F@siu.edu>
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Yes that's right, I think I have narrowed my installation woes down to a drive geometry problem. I've atttempted to perform a floppy installation on two machines. The first, a 386 with two 114MB IDE disks. FreeBSD gives the warning that calculated sectors/cylinder disagress with disk label. Some quick math reveals that the disk label (255) is correct. Also, the second machine, a 486DLC with a WD 850MB IDE runs into the same problem. Again, not surprisingly, the disk label is correct and FreeBSD installation appears to be wrong. In both cases, the net result is an error message like "written -1 of 512 bytes" and the debug screen shows "unexpected end of file invalid gzip archive". How does FreeBSD compute this number, and is there anything that I can do to FORCE it into the right parameters? Please help. I'm depsperately looking forward to a day when I can allocate more than 64k at a time without having to revert to an expensive Windows compiler! Nate:SCHCATS!
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