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On Fri, 24 Jan 1997 aeo@ntplx.net wrote:

> For some reason freebsd detects my hd geometry right on probing
> but in fdisk its completely wrong, so i tryed to change it manually
> but it still won't give me my hd space! :( I have a conner ide hd
> 1.2gig to be exact... any help!? thanks

In these cases, you'll want to create a small DOS partition on the target
disk, then delete it when you install FreeBSD.  This way, sysinstall picks
up the geometry that counts and will get it right.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major