From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 9 07:48:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABEB316A482 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 07:48:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E122843D7B for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 07:48:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FobjQ-0002rj-Bb for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:48:36 +0200 Received: from blueice2n1.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:48:36 +0200 Received: from element by blueice2n1.de.ibm.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:48:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Pavel Duda Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:48:20 +0200 Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: blueice2n1.de.ibm.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Thunderbird/0.9 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Sender: news Subject: Re: WARNING: a geometry of 77545/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 07:48:41 -0000 justin schlingmann wrote: > Hello, > > I`m trying to install freebsd 6.1 from an iso i fetched from > ftp.uk.freebsd.org. > I get the following meassage: > > WARNING: a geometry of 77545/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect uing a more likely > geometry. > If this geometry is incorrect or you are unshure wether or not it`s correct, > please consult the hardware guide > in the documentation submenu or use the geaometry command to change it now. > This should be no problem. I had same warnings when installing 6.0 & 6.1 and everything is OK (so far :-)). > There seems to be a problem with my harddisk but i am not shure what it is. > I also get the following message when i try to fetch my distributions from > cdrom. > "write failurer on transfer" > Have you properly created partitions and mount points for your system ? I remember I've seen something like this when trying to install on disk where mount points were not specified. > maybe someone can help me figuring out the problem is. > Installing freebsd 5.5 goes wthout a problem. > > Thanks, > Justin. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >