Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 13:22:46 -0400 (EDT) From: "Rashid Karimov." <rashid@haven.ios.com> To: jln@ghgcorp.com (Joe Nieten) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk Geometry Problems Message-ID: <199509071722.NAA10207@haven.ios.com> In-Reply-To: <199509071255.HAA08612@mailman.ghgcorp.com> from "Joe Nieten" at Sep 7, 95 07:55:22 am
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Hi there folx, > > I am having trouble installing FreeBSD on a 9 GIG disk ... it keeps having > geometry problems. > > Any suggestions? > > Joe Try a trick: 1024/64/32 is a geometry for 1 Gig SCSI. Everything else should work ( at least works here) by simple multiplying first digit by CAPACITY_OF_YOUR_HD_IN_GIGS Other trick is ( in any case you have to switch the DOS translation in the adapter BIOS OFF) is to use DOS fdisk program and tell it to use the whole HD for the DOS partition and run FreeBSD install afterwards Rashid
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