Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 09:27:40 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Beaudoin, Jean-Marc" <Beaudoin.Jean-Marc@hydro.qc.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk Offset to -63 Message-ID: <19980704092740.T358@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <B133E9EF340BD011B88C00805FE21F27DF4230@msxvpti01.vpi.hydro.qc.ca>; from Beaudoin, Jean-Marc on Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 09:49:28AM -0400 References: <B133E9EF340BD011B88C00805FE21F27DF4230@msxvpti01.vpi.hydro.qc.ca>
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On Friday, 3 July 1998 at 9:49:28 -0400, Beaudoin, Jean-Marc wrote: > Good day, > > I am trying to run the fdisk utility to install FreeBSD 2.2.6. > > It gives me an Offset value of -63 on the disk. The disk is was a Fujitsu > IDE 1,08 Gb. > > Of course with the Offset at -63 FreeBSD will not install. > > Yester I bought a new one (Quantum BigFoot 2.5Gb), modify the master disk > entry in the BIOS, ran the Disk Manager utility that came with the disk. > > I still get an offset of -63. > > My guess at this point is that the problem is not with the IDE drive but > mostly with the BIOS. > > The PC (a test PC) is a 486 dx4/100 with 64 Mb or RAM. > > Anyone had to deal with this? How can I bypass this Offset of -63? Or is > there something I should know about FreeBSD partitionning? I'm sorry, I don't understand the question. What do you mean by "offset"? It's not a term used by fdisk. It would help to give an example of the output you get. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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