Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 02:09:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Beaudoin, Jean-Marc" <Beaudoin.Jean-Marc@hydro.qc.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk Offset to -63 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980704020837.12188u-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <B133E9EF340BD011B88C00805FE21F27DF4230@msxvpti01.vpi.hydro.qc.ca>
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On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, 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. Huh? A 63 offset is normal since the first 63 blocks are reserved for the MBR and partition tables. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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