From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 3 9:36:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4DDE37B64A for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:36:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from joshpaet (hutch-519.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.158]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id LAA28500; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:35:58 -0500 (CDT) From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Kim J. Brand" , "Rick Hamell" Cc: Subject: RE: install fails on 10.2 GB drive using 4.0 Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:34:40 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20000703102130.00708224@192.168.0.1> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Kim J. Brand [mailto:kim@simple-mail.com] > Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 10:22 AM > To: Josh Paetzel; Rick Hamell > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: install fails on 10.2 GB drive using 4.0 > > > both the hard drive and motherboard are new to this application. the hard > drive had been used with WIN98 and i decided to put it to a better use :) > > the motherboard is a new asus P3V4X but seemed to work OK for a short time > while i was using it with WIN98. i partitioned the drive with WIN98 just > to see if that process would work and it did. > > thanks, > > kim >> K...well that eliminates the hardware issue, then. I had 4.0 get confused on me about geometry of a disk once as well. It was telling me that the beginning of slices was after the end and all sorts of weirdness. I reformatted the drive and the problem went away, but I never really figured out what caused it. Perhaps FBSD and your computer are not agreeing about the geometry of the drive. Someone else will have to help you out, though, I have to fiddle with these things to fix em. I'm no good at just spitting out the answer. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message