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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 18:46:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, 29 Jul 1996, Christopher B. Humbert wrote:

> I have two hard drives.  I am trying to install FreeBSD from one hard drive to the other.
> For some reason, the drive I am trying to install from gives me errors.  The reason is the
> drive geometry.  How do I set the drive geometry of my source drive/partition.  The 
> setup program allows you to set the geometry of the target drive but how do you set the
> geometry of the source????

The source geometry should be right.  I don't think I've ever seen a
problem detecting the DOS slice geometry.

Are you sure that's the problem?

Let's see the error output.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major