Date: 09 Aug 97 23:35:17 +0100 From: Doug.White@234-49-99.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (Doug White) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange disk geometry during install Message-ID: <760_9708120417@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk>
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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> Subject: Re: Strange disk geometry during install On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Dave Bodenstab wrote: > Next I decided to try putting FreeBSD in the first (large) partition, > with dos at the end of the disk. I thought that with LBA support, I might > get away with this. When I went back to dos' fdisk, it now reported only > 504M total space !!! What's going on? Turn LBA off. If you change this setting you have to refresh your partition table's geometries, and I don't know how to do that programmaitcally. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo -- |Fidonet: Doug White 2:234/49.99 |Internet: Doug.White@234-49-99.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk | Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own.
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