From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 22 14:13:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA09675 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:13:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts9-line14.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.95]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA09645 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:13:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA00339; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:13:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:13:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Nathan Denny cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hark! Magnetic Storage and Mr. Euclid. In-Reply-To: <31F3BE87.5C5F@siu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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