Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 08:52:18 +0100 From: "Clare & Peter Stubbs" <clarenpete@sol.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Changing disk grometry and using the entire disk when installing Message-ID: <199904030753.IAA00420@gnasher.sol.co.uk>
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Hi all, I'm installing the new FBSD 3.1 on an ancient 386 compaq laptop. When I am in the partition editor, it thinks that the disk is 156M, not the 116M that I know it is. I use 'G' to correct the geometry, then use 'A' do use the whole disk and it resets the geometry back to the wrong size, then uses the whole of that non-existant 156M and fails to newfs it (at a later stage). I can just set the geometry and create a slice, but then I have 40 sectors unused, and since space is so very tight, I'd like to have them in the filesystem. During the boot, it finds wd0 with the correct geometry as well! 2.2.5 simply believed my bios and didn't give this problem. I'm sorry if this is a FAQ, but I've tried to search the list archives and got Proxy Error The proxy server could not handle this request. Reason: Could not connect to remote machine I don't use a proxy so it must be at the freebsd end. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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