From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 13 09:27:41 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA13099 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 09:27:41 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA13093 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 09:27:40 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA17081; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 09:27:30 -0800 Message-Id: <199503131727.JAA17081@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Joe Lowe cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can't install file system In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 Mar 1995 11:10:29 CST." Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 09:27:29 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >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 ==============================================