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Date:      Wed, 31 Jul 1996 18:01:02 -0500
From:      Randy DuCharme <randyd@nconnect.net>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Installing FBSD alone on 2GB SCSI disk
Message-ID:  <31FFE5AE.BD1@nconnect.net>

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Greetings,

I hope this isn't pathetically stupid... I've successfully installed the 
OS on many machines in shared OS situations and alone on smaller drives 
but this one sort of has me stumped.  I've been trying to install FBSD 
on a single 2.05GB Quantum SCSI II hard disk. The controller is an 
Adaptec 1542CF.  I've tried both disabling and enabling large disk 
translation.  I wanted to install it using the entire drive rather than 
with a partition entry, but have done it both ways.  In all cases on 
installation it comes up saying the drive geometry is invalid.  It then 
defaults to 2050/64/32.  Whether I accept these settings, or change them 
(1023/64/32 was reported using pfdisk) I get all the way through the 
installation and on reboot I get...

Boot:
Error: C:1040 > 1023 (BIOS limit)

I'm kinda lost on this one. 

Thanks

Randy



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