Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 09:49:28 -0400 From: "Beaudoin, Jean-Marc" <Beaudoin.Jean-Marc@hydro.qc.ca> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Disk Offset to -63 Message-ID: <B133E9EF340BD011B88C00805FE21F27DF4230@msxvpti01.vpi.hydro.qc.ca>
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Good day, I am trying to run the fdisk utility to install FreeBSD 2.2.6. It gives me an Offset value of -63 on the disk. The disk is was a Fujitsu IDE 1,08 Gb. Of course with the Offset at -63 FreeBSD will not install. Yester I bought a new one (Quantum BigFoot 2.5Gb), modify the master disk entry in the BIOS, ran the Disk Manager utility that came with the disk. I still get an offset of -63. My guess at this point is that the problem is not with the IDE drive but mostly with the BIOS. The PC (a test PC) is a 486 dx4/100 with 64 Mb or RAM. Anyone had to deal with this? How can I bypass this Offset of -63? Or is there something I should know about FreeBSD partitionning? Regards, ____________________ Jean-Marc Beaudoin, consultant Projet AN 2000 (VAX/OpenVMS) Tél.: 289-2211 (6405) Beaudoin.Jean-Marc@hydro.qc.ca _________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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