From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 15 16:12: 4 2002 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 5090137B4B4 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 16:12:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F77743E70 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 16:11:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Received: from ftp.otenet.gr (ftp.otenet.gr [195.170.0.21]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6FNBu1x006761; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 02:11:56 +0300 (EEST) Received: from LocalHost (patr530-b204.otenet.gr [212.205.244.212]) by ftp.otenet.gr (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g6FNBrHR018224; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 02:11:54 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <002001c22c55$02c80360$d4f4cdd4@LocalHost> From: "Giorgos Keramidas" To: "Jeff Feller" , References: <004e01c22c52$f1ab48f0$a500a8c0@zanardi> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install -- FDISK Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 02:11:52 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Jeff Feller wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.6 on a Pentium 133 > with a Western Digital 40 GB Hard Drive (WD400BB). > The BIOS and everywhere else see's it as a 40 GB > drive but when I get into FreeBSD's FDISK part it > thinks it's a 2 GB drive. Sounds like disk geometry problems. Read the Handbook section (in the installation chapter) that talks about disk geometries and what BIOS thinks the disk is... etc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message