From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 20 15:37:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA22754 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 15:37:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kevin.sunshine.net ([204.191.205.110]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA22744 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 15:37:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by kevin.sunshine.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA00244; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 15:33:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 15:33:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Eliuk Reply-To: Kevin Eliuk To: Wes Peters cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re:OOPS: Question on preparing for Re-Install In-Reply-To: <199704201856.MAA07886@obie.softweyr.ml.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Wes Peters wrote: > Kevin Eliuk writes: > > > wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa > > > wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): > > > wd0: 1036MB (2121840 sectors), 2105 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, > > > 512 B/S > > > (LBA OnTrack 7.04) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > This may just be what bit your original installation; you cannot use > "LBA" mode with FreeBSD. You *must* tell FreeBSD the *real* geometry > of the disk. > Although I am reluctant to differ, that was the one thing I remember checking out prior to my initial installation. [timeout] It took me some find it but here it is from FAQ37 ... 2.15. What about disk managers? My BIOS doesn't support large drives! FreeBSD recognises the Ontrack Disk Manager and makes allowances for it. Other disk managers are not supported. If you just want to use the disk with FreeBSD you don't need a disk manager. Just configure the disk for as much space as the BIOS can deal with (usually 504 megabytes), and FreeBSD should figure out how much space you really have. If you're using an old disk with an MFM controller, you may need to explicitly tell FreeBSD how many cylinders to use. If you want to use the disk with FreeBSD and another operating system, you may be able to do without a disk manager: just make sure the the FreeBSD boot partition and the slice for the other operating system are in the first 1024 cylinders. Updated April 10, 1997 As well I checked for differences between c:\pfdisk 0 and sysinstall partition editor, and there was none. > Yeah, 5 meg is pretty minimal for FreeBSD. I recently upgraded from 16M > to 32M because I was tired of paging while running Emacs and Netscape > under X! ;^) If anyone has any connections with chip brokers let me know,because I know the chips and daughter board are available, but at a premium through the suppliers that deal with old merchandise. > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com > > > > > > > _______________________________________ |\ /| | \ kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net / | | \ Kevin G. Eliuk / | | /^\_________________________/^\ | | / \ | |/--===### Powered By FreeBSD 2.2.1 \| | www.freebsd.org | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~