Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:37:56 -0500 (EST) From: "Jason A. Pfeil" <pfeil@cs.fsu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation onto LARGE HD (10.1GB) (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9902251737470.19006-100000@xi>
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---- 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:09:00 -0500 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: pfeil@nu.cs.fsu.edu Subject: Re: Installation onto LARGE HD (10.1GB) Jason Pfeil wrote: > > To Whom it May Concern: > > I am an avid and very experienced Linux user and would like to try the > other kid on the block -- FreeBSD. I have a new drive, but when I try > to create BSD slices in a partition whose type I changed to freebsd from > within the installation, it tells me that I cannot do that. Here are > the results from fdisk /dev/hdc (the HD) under Linux: > > < -- begin transcript -- > > # fdisk /dev/hdc > The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 19650. > This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with: > 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO) > 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs > (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) > > Command (m for help): p > > Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 19650 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdc1 1 1 2081 1048792+ 83 Linux > native > /dev/hdc2 2048 2082 6243 2097648 83 Linux > native > /dev/hdc3 6144 6244 10405 2097648 83 Linux > native > /dev/hdc4 10240 10406 19650 4659480 5 Extended > > Command (m for help): q > < -- end transcript -- > > > I am trying to change the type of partition /dev/hdc1 (linux naming) to > freebsd under the freebsd installation and create a slice for swap and a > slice for a partition. Unfortunately, I get an error saying that I > can't create the partition. LBA is on under the BIOS, and Linux has no > problems with the drive. This is the third HD in my system and > therefore LILO will not be running off of it so it shouldn't be limited > by the BIOS when booting freebsd off of this partition. One option I > haven't tried, but was hoping you would have a better solution, was to > copy off the data I already have on the drive, do a low-level format to > erase everything and see if I can coerce LBA under my BIOS to reduce the > cylinder to <= 1024 by increasing the number of heads. Do you have ANY > other solution? > > Thank you for your time. > > Sincerely, > > Jason A. Pfeil Oooops! Wrong address! This is the documentation project. E-mail your mail to <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> which will (probably) answer your question in less than 48 hours. Thank You -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][French piss me off - Cartman, South Park] [The FreeBSD User Guide][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/freebsd/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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