From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 3 18:23:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA19216 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 18:23:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA19208 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 18:23:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA07854; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 18:09:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd007844; Sat Jul 4 01:09:34 1998 Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 18:09:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Greg Lehey cc: "Beaudoin, Jean-Marc" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk Offset to -63 In-Reply-To: <19980704092740.T358@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Maybe he means in the fdisk page of the sysinstall? On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message