From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 26 07:36:47 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31DE616A401 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:36:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ABabiy@shaw.ca) Received: from pd2mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 117AD13C45A for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:36:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ABabiy@shaw.ca) Received: from pd3mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr4so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.180]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JFI00FM82HBAO80@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:36:47 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml2so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.146]) by pd3mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JFI00JY12HARNM0@pd3mr4so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:36:47 -0600 (MDT) Received: from s01060014bf5ee711.vs.shawcable.net ([70.71.17.246]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JFI00AKV2H90Y31@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:36:45 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:36:44 -0700 From: Andriy Babiy In-reply-to: <20070326004014.64D1A16A400@hub.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <200703260036.44411.ABabiy@shaw.ca> Organization: home MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <20070326004014.64D1A16A400@hub.freebsd.org> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: chrishiker@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Installing on large disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:36:47 -0000 On March 25, 2007, freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org wrote: > John C Nolen wrote: > > I have a 40 GB hard disk that was made in 2001 with windows xp > > installed on a 20 GB partition. BIOS setup says 19158 cylinders, 16 > > heads and 255 sectors. > > I want to install freeBSD on the second 20 GB partition. All the > > instructions seem to refer to small disks, as they appear to require > > cylinders less than 1023. > > Sysinstall appears to require cylinders less than 1023. Did I miss > > something? > > Is it possible to install BSD as a dual operating system with windows > > xp on a disk larger than 8 GB ? > > Am I trying to do something impossible? > > Should I just ignore warnings and type in 1023 when asked about > > cylinders? > > If I uninstall the windows xp can I put freeBSD on one big 40GB > > partition? > > I could not find any information on this in handbook or FAQ. > > Yes, just ignore the cylinder warnings.. > > Interesting thing is that I never got those and I have installed FBSD on > multiple 80GB disks :). > > -Garrett I had this problem a long time ago, when the FreeBSD 3.3 was current. Those instructions refer to those days I think. Do you install 6.2? Where are you asked to type the cylinder info? What kind of an installation do you do? Usually, defaults in sysinstall would be fine. Andriy