From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 3 19:12:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA11530 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 19:12:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA11520 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 19:12:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA11395; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 19:12:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 19:12:40 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jason Sabella cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation In-Reply-To: <3525696D.45F20654@ic.sunysb.edu> 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 Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Jason Sabella wrote: > Hi Doug. I only have the one hard 6.4 GIG hard drive. I don't know > what that "wd2" is. Is that possibly a wrong partition? Is there a way > to change it to a different "wd" in the install program(if such a thing > exists). My current configuration is this: You should be prompted before going into fdisk for which disk you want. Post your boot message output again. > But the installation program still says: > Disk name: wd2 <<----- > Disk Geometry: 512 cyls/12 heads/32 sectors = 196608 sectors > Offset Size End Name Ptype Desc Subtype Flags > 0 32 31 - 6 unused 0 > 32 196192 196223 wd2s1 2 fat 6 = > 196224 384 196607 - 6 unused 0 Hm, 196608 * 512 bytes == 100663296 bytes, or a 100mb drive. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message