Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:13:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Nathan Denny <SCHCATS@siu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hark! Magnetic Storage and Mr. Euclid. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960722141221.318B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <31F3BE87.5C5F@siu.edu>
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On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Nathan Denny wrote: > Yes that's right, I think I have narrowed my installation woes down to a > drive geometry problem. I've atttempted to perform a floppy installation > on two machines. The first, a 386 with two 114MB IDE disks. FreeBSD gives the > warning that calculated sectors/cylinder disagress with disk label. Some > quick math reveals that the disk label (255) is correct. Also, the second > machine, a 486DLC with a WD 850MB IDE runs into the same problem. Again, not > surprisingly, the disk label is correct and FreeBSD installation appears to be > wrong. This is pretty common, actually. The way to fix it is to create a small DOS slice on the target disk, then delete it when you create the FreeBSD slice in the fdisk editor. fdisk should pick up the proper geometry from the DOS slice. 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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