From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 4 17:58: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nu.cs.fsu.edu (nu.cs.fsu.edu [128.186.121.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D6815132 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:58:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pfeil@cs.fsu.edu) Received: from xi (xi [128.186.121.41]) by nu.cs.fsu.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA17655; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 20:57:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 20:57:06 -0500 (EST) From: "Jason A. Pfeil" To: Greg Lehey Cc: "Jason A. Pfeil" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation onto LARGE HD (10.1GB) (fwd) In-Reply-To: <19990305122328.R490@lemis.com> 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 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 > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > ---- Jason A. Pfeil pfeil@cs.fsu.edu Information Systems Developer jpfeil@lsi.fsu.edu CASDL (850)644-8014; fax: (850)644-4952 Learning Systems Institute University Center C-3527 http://idl.fsu.edu Tallahassee, FL 32306-2540 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message