Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:50:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Jason A. Pfeil" <pfeil@cs.fsu.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Jason A. Pfeil" <pfeil@nu.cs.fsu.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation onto LARGE HD (10.1GB) (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9903051147430.13495-100000@xi> In-Reply-To: <19990305143159.T490@lemis.com>
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Jeez. I am trying to have a dialog. The first thing I did during the installation was to change the type of the partition to freebsd. The installation program told me to do that. It still wouldn't let me create any slices. I guess it's that the root partiton of freebsd would end in a cylinder number > 1023. This coming week is Spring Break and I will try the copying of all data off the drive and low-level formatting the drive and then seeing if the BIOS LBA will see the drive as having < 1024 cylinders but >> 63 heads. I'll report back with my findings. --Jason On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 4 March 1999 at 20:57:06 -0500, Jason A. Pfeil wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > >> On Thursday, 4 March 1999 at 20:50:09 -0500, Jason A. Pfeil wrote: > >>> On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>> > >>>> On Thursday, 4 March 1999 at 17:28:14 -0500, Jason A. Pfeil wrote: > >>>>> Unfortunately, it appears that the installation program can't handle > >>>>> HD's with >1024 cylinders. Is this the case? > >>>> > >>>> No. > >>>> > >>>>> Another option would be to use FreeBSD's installation proggy to > >>>>> delete the already-created partition and create a new one. Any > >>>>> ideas? > >>>> > >>>> That's what I was suggesting above. But if you don't want to change > >>>> the size of the partition, changing the partition type would do. > >>> > >>> Unfortunately, I tried to change the type of the partition to 165 > >>> (freebsd). I guess I'll have to try to change the size of the partition. > >> > >> What's unfortunate about that? What went wrong? > > > > That's what I tried originally. It was after that that I sent the > > original message. > > I'm not sure what this statement has to do with my question. I'm > prepared to help, but this is supposed to be a dialogue, not a series > of unsubstantiated statements. > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > ---- Jason A. Pfeil pfeil@cs.fsu.edu Information Systems Developer jpfeil@lsi.fsu.edu CASDL (850)644-8014; fax: (850)644-4952 Learning Systems Institute University Center C-3527 http://idl.fsu.edu Tallahassee, FL 32306-2540 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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