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Date:      Thu, 4 Mar 1999 20:57:06 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Jason A. Pfeil" <pfeil@cs.fsu.edu>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        "Jason A. Pfeil" <pfeil@nu.cs.fsu.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installation onto LARGE HD (10.1GB) (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.9903042055550.21339-100000@xi>
In-Reply-To: <19990305122328.R490@lemis.com>

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That's what I tried originally.  It was after that that I sent the
original message.

On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Thursday,  4 March 1999 at 20:50:09 -0500, Jason A. Pfeil wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
> >
> >> On Thursday,  4 March 1999 at 17:28:14 -0500, Jason A. Pfeil wrote:
> >>> Unfortunately, it appears that the installation program can't handle
> >>> HD's with >1024 cylinders.  Is this the case?
> >>
> >> No.
> >>
> >>> Another option would be to use FreeBSD's installation proggy to
> >>> delete the already-created partition and create a new one.  Any
> >>> ideas?
> >>
> >> That's what I was suggesting above.  But if you don't want to change
> >> the size of the partition, changing the partition type would do.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I tried to change the type of the partition to 165
> > (freebsd).  I guess I'll have to try to change the size of the partition.
> 
> What's unfortunate about that?  What went wrong?
> 
> Greg
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