From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 12:53:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA14981 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 12:53:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA14976 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 12:53:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA07835; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 12:54:52 -0800 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 12:54:52 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: praj cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk Geometry In-Reply-To: <199603120421.XAA08534@bessel.nando.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, praj wrote: > > Hi, > > I tried to install FreeBSD 2.1.0 on my Aptiva PC. This is a 1 GB IDE > drive. Apparently i was successful with installing it as i am able to set > up accounts, log in create files and save them, etc. > > But during installation i noticed that the disk geometry freebsd is using > is different from that of my disk.I would like to know how i can set up > freebsd to recognize the same disk geometry as my pc's disk. If it's working, I wouldn't worry about it. :-) Geometry is quite fuzzy. Most likely you are using a disk translator (I think the Aptiva's have them built in) and FreeBSD and DOS/Win95/?? sees it differently. > Also i would like to set up ppp/kermit dialup access. What should i do > for this? Is there any doc that tells how to set this up? For kermit i > followed the config doc and when i try to dial i get a modem > initialization failure. Check the Handbook for more information. > I have problems installating the sources as i get an "unexpected eof " > message with whichever part of the sources i try to install. Then you didn't get all the archives, or did not cat them together and pipe them through tar. I use this to install distributions after the system is up, with all the necessary files in the current directory (let's say the ssys (kernel source) distribution for example): cat ssys.* | tar xzf - > I am sorry if some of these questions have already been answered,. I have > already searched the freebsd newsgroup archives before posting my > question here. Did you check the questions archive at http://www.freebsd.org? Hope this helps. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major