Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:31:59 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jason A. Pfeil" <pfeil@nu.cs.fsu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation onto LARGE HD (10.1GB) (fwd) Message-ID: <19990305143159.T490@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9903042055550.21339-100000@xi>; from Jason A. Pfeil on Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 08:57:06PM -0500 References: <19990305122328.R490@lemis.com> <Pine.GSO.4.10.9903042055550.21339-100000@xi>
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On Thursday, 4 March 1999 at 20:57:06 -0500, Jason A. Pfeil wrote: > 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? > > That's what I tried originally. It was after that that I sent the > original message. I'm not sure what this statement has to do with my question. I'm prepared to help, but this is supposed to be a dialogue, not a series of unsubstantiated statements. 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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