From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 27 19:57:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B0DF37B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:57:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from pop015.verizon.net (pop015pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BEE643F43 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:57:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([129.44.40.202]) by pop015.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.20 201-253-122-126-120-20021101) with ESMTP id <20030128035737.DDKZ21001.pop015.verizon.net@mac.com> for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:57:37 -0600 Message-ID: <3E35FFB1.7000405@mac.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:57:37 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0 install help - slicing disk problems References: <3E35FE2D.7000009@visi.com> In-Reply-To: <3E35FE2D.7000009@visi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at pop015.verizon.net from [129.44.40.202] at Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:57:37 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG dennis wrote: [ ... ] > Are these problems related to the new-ness of my mobo and chipset or am > I just doing something wrong? Is there a work around for the problem? > > I want to dedicate the entire disk to the freebsd installation. Try using MS-DOS' FDISK to create your partitions, and see whether FreeBSD recognizes the geometry better. You can either change the partition type from FAT to UFS, or else perhaps create a ~20 MB DOS partition and try to install FreeBSD in the remaining space. [ For that matter, make sure that you've disabled any boot sector virus checking or protection in the system BIOS. ] -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message