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From: "Rashid Karimov." <rashid@haven.ios.com>
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Subject: Re: Disk Geometry Problems
To: jln@ghgcorp.com (Joe Nieten)
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 13:22:46 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199509071255.HAA08612@mailman.ghgcorp.com> from "Joe Nieten" at Sep 7, 95 07:55:22 am
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		Hi there folx,


> 
> I am having trouble installing FreeBSD on a 9 GIG disk ... it keeps having
> geometry problems.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Joe

	Try a trick:

	1024/64/32 is a geometry for 1 Gig SCSI.
	Everything else should work ( at least works here) by simple
	multiplying first digit by CAPACITY_OF_YOUR_HD_IN_GIGS 

	Other trick is ( in any case you have to switch the DOS 
	translation in the adapter BIOS OFF) is to use DOS fdisk
	program and tell it to use the whole HD for the DOS partition
	and run FreeBSD install afterwards


	Rashid