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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:07:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Greg Bauer <gbauer@telusplanet.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation Drive Geometry
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On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Greg Bauer wrote:

> 
>         I have recently purchased the Complete FreeBSD package(2.2.6).
> I am installing it on a pentium 166 with 32 Mb ram. I have a 
> Western Digitial hard drive WDC AC32500H (4960cyl, 16hd, 63 spt).
> I want to share the drive with Windows NT 4.0 and dos 6.22.
> I have the drive partitioned with a 20 MB dos partition at the start
> next free space of 250MB (for freeBSD), and the remainder of the 
> drive is and extended dos partition, with several logical drives.
> 
> When I boot 2.2.6 from a floppy it detects the drive geometry wd0 as 
> 4960,16,63 (which is the actual drive geometry).  I can obtain the bios
> translated geometry as 619,128,63 with pfdisk. I the novice setup
> the fdisk partition editor has 620,128,63.  I assume this is because
> pfdisk start numbering from 0 and fdisk starts numbering from 1?

Suggestion:  Don't worry about geometry unless it's causing a problem.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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