From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 8 13:06:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 236B116A40A for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 13:06:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joshua.lewis@familyfunzone.net) Received: from smtpout06.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (smtpout06-04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.165.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA49F13C468 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 13:06:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joshua.lewis@familyfunzone.net) Received: (qmail 20162 invoked from network); 8 May 2007 13:06:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (64.57.168.66) by smtpout06-04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.227) with ESMTP; 08 May 2007 13:06:07 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Lewis Joshua Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 09:06:06 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Subject: Sysinstall Drive Geometry X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 13:06:11 -0000 Hello List, I am installing FreeBSD 6.2 on a DELL 2900 with a PERC 5i controller. There are three 750GB SATA drives using Hardware Raid 5. When I try to install FreeBSD I get errors when fdisking the drive. I have never had that problem with FreeBSD so I don't know what to do. Of course I have never had the opportunity to install FreeBSD on this kind of hardware. I first thought maybe it was because I was using a FreeBSD x86 install CD. But the system has a Quad Zeon and that is a 64bit chip right? So I downloaded the X86-64 (The one that says AMD64. I read the docs on that and on ia64 and I think I chose the correct CD). However I still get the same problem. I realize it was dumb for me to think it was due to the architecture. But I was kind of grasping at straws. Dell claims they don't support FreeBSD. And I have read on the list just yesterday that you either get lucky or not when using Dell and FreeBSD. This is a test box at home for messing around. So I can do anything to the system. Reinstall or what ever. My goal was to install FreeBSD and then the VMware server port and use it as a lab/firewall for my internal network. The funny thing is I can fdisk the drive auto create the /, /swap, / temp, /var, /usr and just keep going no biggie. The system installs fine and boots and is doing a cvsup as we speak. So I don't even know if I should worry about it. Thanks for any input. The FreeBSD list has always been a great help. So again thanks in advance.