Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:40:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: krugerc@telusplanet.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation question Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006261434300.19934-100000@rac5.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000626183028.BDSE4208.priv-edtnes04-hme0.telusplanet.net@[161.184.229.57]>
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> I am having trouble installing FreeBSD onto my 14 GB hard drive. How > can I successfully install FreeBSD within the 1024 cylinders > limitation? Is there a special DOS download to accommodate large hard > drives for the installation? Thanks, Cliff. Only the root partition or slice needs to be within the first 1024 cylinders. I would reccomend going with the default disk partitioning scheme (unless you are dual booting with some other os too) of using the entire disk for FreeBSD, then making slices in some way close to the default (by hitting the 'A' key while editing slices, some fairly sane defaults can be obtained)... here is an example that I use on a fairly large hard drive as displayed by df: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 128943 20917 97711 18% / /dev/ad0s1f 11858305 1830637 9079004 17% /usr /dev/ad0s1e 69407 3823 60032 6% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc I deleted /stand/sysinstall, so I can't show you exactly where everything ends and begins, but my machine boots fine, so the root slice is definitly not beyond the 1024th cyl.... Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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