Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 09:27:29 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: Joe Lowe <jlowe@fly.HiWAAY.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can't install file system Message-ID: <199503131727.JAA17081@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Mar 1995 11:10:29 CST." <Pine.3.89.9503131128.A30955-0100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
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> > >On Mon, 13 Mar 1995, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > >> What kind of controller do you have? The place to do it is in the >> Fdisk screen of the FreeBSD install. Use the G)eometry option. > >I am using the Adaptec AHA-2740T eisa fast SCSI controller. I read about Hey! I wrote the driver for that card. ;-) I hope it will work for you once we get the geometry issue fixed for you. >the extended translation in the manual, and I sure wish I had known about >this earlier. The real solution is to turn off the extended translation, as >the DOS slice would be less than 1 gig. I will try to use the Geometry option >and I hope it works, as yet once again, I might have to nuke the drive and >start over. :-(( Well, both DOS and your bootable FreeBSD partition have to be below the 1gig line if you want to turn off extended translation. > >Thanks for your excellent and fast support. > >Joe > -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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