Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 03:31:06 +0200 From: Olivier Gautherot <ogautherot@freesurf.fr> To: Chiheb Djabri <shadowman00x@videotron.ca> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitionning Problem Message-ID: <412A9A5A.5000207@freesurf.fr> In-Reply-To: <00d501c4895c$76c16980$d2242518@iceonfire85> References: <00d501c4895c$76c16980$d2242518@iceonfire85>
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Hi Chiheb!
Chiheb Djabri wrote:
>Hello
>
>I am New To Freebsd. I tried to create partitions for Freebsd using FDISK but It does not detect my disk correctly. The thing is I have a 37 Gb of Hard Drive; 5 Gb are allocated for Windows 98 (FAT32), ~23,5Gb for Windows XP (NTFS) and I have the rest of Disk partitionioned with Gentoo. I thought to use this partitions for Freesbd. That's what appears on Fdisk screen:
>
>Disk name:ad0
>DISK Geometry: 4865 cyls/255heads/63 sectors= 78156225 sectors (38162 MB)
>
>
>Offset Size (ST) End Name PType Desc subty Flags
>0 63 63 - 12 unused 0
>63 10249407 10249469 ad0s1 7 fat 11
>10249470 67890690 78140159 ad0s2 4 extended DOS, LBA 15
>78140160 25200 78165359 - 12 unused 0
>
>Besides I received a message as ad0 geometry is incorrect
>Can somebody help me please?
>
>
I've already come across "incorrect" partitioning with the Linux fdisk.
It seems to allocate half cyclinders for whatever reason.
I would recommend to rerun the partitioning using the FreeBSD
installation program. Note that, until the installation is committed,
the disk is not modified so no data is lost.
Hope it helps
Olivier
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