From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 18 21:20:29 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC8716A4D9 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:20:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vsmtp1alice.tin.it (vsmtp1alice.tin.it [212.216.176.144]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EE8543D1D for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:20:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from giupil@aliceposta.it) Received: from [82.55.88.50] (82.55.88.50) by vsmtp1alice.tin.it (7.0.027) id 422F1E46000E7D07 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:20:25 +0100 Message-ID: <423B463A.10907@aliceposta.it> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:20:58 +0100 From: "giupil@aliceposta.it" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050303 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: sysinstall/fdisk and the disk geometry X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:20:29 -0000 Hi at all. My question is simple. My laptop is a 1513lmi Acer, it has a TOSHIBA MK6025GAS disk with 117210240 LBA sectors. When I install Freebsd 5.3, Sysinstall, in the Fdisk submenu,state the geometry 116280/16/63 then translate automatically this geometry to 7296/255/63. But both when I use the 5.3-RELEASE-amd64-disc2 and when I use a installed system, Fdisk find the geometry 116280/16/63 and doesn't translate automatically this geometry to 7296/255/63. So: When I use Fdisk, have I to change the geometry from 116280/16/63 to 7296/255/63? Sysinstall, partitioning, use Fdisk then: why is there this difference? Is there a more exhaustive documentation about Fdisk and Sysinstall that the man pages? Thank you Bye Giuseppe