From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 11 19:34:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA19338 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 19:34:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from max.roskildebc.dk (max.roskildebc.dk [194.182.101.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA19329 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 19:34:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by max.roskildebc.dk (5.61/9.8) with UUCP id AA04263; Tue, 12 Aug 97 04:23:32 +0200 Received: by swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (0.99.970109) id AA00753; 12 Aug 97 04:17:28 +0100 From: Doug.White@234-49-99.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (Doug White) Date: 09 Aug 97 23:35:17 +0100 Subject: Re: Strange disk geometry during install Message-Id: <760_9708120417@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> Organization: Fidonet: Swimsuit Safari <-> Internet Gateway To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk From: Doug White 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.