From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 22 10:55:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA00665 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:55:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00660 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:55:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA10552; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:54:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:54:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: charon@freethought.org cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: partitions and 3.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981019152647.00a04100@mail> 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 On Mon, 19 Oct 1998 charon@freethought.org wrote: > When I tried to install 3.0 using the novice option, I get what I believe > to be an error in the FDISK partition editor. All the partitions of the > 3909 MB drive I'm using are read as _double_ their actual size (e.g. a > 1024000 byte partition looks like it's 2048000 bytes). I haven't gone any > further in the installation process because I'd like to avoid wiping out > both Win95 and WinNT, which are already installed (I'm prepared for them to > be wiped out, I'd just rather avoid it). I successfully installed 2.2.6 > and 2.2.7 on this same machine without any problems at all. Can anyone > explain this to me? They're expressed as 512 byte blocks. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message