From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed May 8 18:18:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA57C37B409 for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 18:18:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nycmny1-ar4-4-43-237-009.elnk.dsl.gtei.net ([4.43.237.9] helo=earthlink.net) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 175cZX-0006Es-00 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 08 May 2002 18:18:19 -0700 Message-ID: <3CD9CF78.40203@earthlink.net> Disposition-Notification-To: Mark McVicker Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 21:23:04 -0400 From: Mark McVicker User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417 X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware Subject: Hard Disc Geometry Clarification During Install Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, all. I hope this is the correct forum for my question. I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 4.5 on a new system I've just put together (w/ two 60GB drives). This is the first time I've ever installed a *nix system. After reading the documentation & notes and the book I bought, I still wanted clarification before going any further in my install process. I know my question is probably simple, but I wanted someone else's opinion before I potentially messed things up. My scenario is as follows: When I reach the part of the install which asks which disk I want to put my files on, I am given the warning, ``WARNING! A geometry of 116301/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect. Using a more likely geometry...''. Upon clicking OK, I am given the fdisk utility to create my slice(s). The second line of fdisk gives me: 7297 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 117226305 sectors (57239MB) which sounds similar to my 60GB disc. Even though I got the error message, is it okay to continue with the install, or do I need to change something in the BIOS? Any advice/assistance/help, etc. would be appreciated. Thanks for your time. Cheers, -Mark USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message