From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 8 19:25:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA04487 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 19:25:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA04480 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 19:25:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA29062; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 21:58:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199806090158.VAA29062@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: Did I screw up? Installing FreeBSD and cylinder boundaries. In-Reply-To: <9253.897336669@monkeys.com> from "Ronald F. Guilmette" at "Jun 8, 98 01:11:09 pm" To: rfg@monkeys.com (Ronald F. Guilmette) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 21:58:23 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > Yesterday, I tried to do a fresh install of FreeBSD 2.2.6 from the CD ROM > set that I recently purchased from Walnut Creek. > .... > My friend said that my install was basically broken from the get-go because > I failed to have the one and only non-swap partition that I had requested > to have made be aligned to the exact start of a cylinder boundary. He said > that this was a requirement in cases where I was planning to boot from the > one and only hard drive on the system... i.e. the one I was installing > FreeBSD onto and that the only way that you can get away with having the > FreeBSD root partition _not_ be so aligned was if you would be normally > booting from some other device. > > Is my friend correct about all of this? Must the root partition for FreeBSD > be aligned to a cylinder boundary? If so, why didn't _something_ yell at me > during the automated install process and tell me that I was screwing up when > I failed to properly align that partition to such a boundary? > > (My friend says that the install processes ``Assumed that you knew what the > hell you were doing.'' My response? ``Well, obviously that was a poor > assumption on its part.'') Heh. An install process that "assumes you know what you're doing" consists of a pile of tar files, tar, newfs, disklabel and fdisk. > This all happened yesterday. Today, I am still rather sleep-deprived, and > now, on top of that I get to also feel both guilty and stupid. Swell. Did > I really deserve all this? No. It's possible that the install was screwed up, but not for that reason, I think. Try it again after a nap, and walk through the installation, taking defaults along the way. The concept "cylinder boundary" is a little vague with respect to most modern drives. If I'm wrong, I hope somebody tells me quick. Dave -- DISCLAIMER: If it can be disclaimed, it is. DISCLAIMER: In particular, I don't represent any organization. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message