Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 10:26:17 -0500 (EST) From: steve hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot problems (was Re: Western Digital boot failures ) Message-ID: <Pine.SCO.3.91.951218102502.9139A-100000@buffnet3.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <199512181301.XAA07321@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Michael Smith wrote: > steve hovey stands accused of saying: > > > READ THE INSTALLATION NOTES! SET THE GEOMETRY IN THE INSTALLER TO MATCH > > > WHAT YOUR BIOS THINKS THE DISK IS. DO NOT GUESS. DO NOT PASS GO. > > > DO NOT COLLECT $200. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? > > > > Dont beat up the guy - you will continue to have to say this until there > > is a utility for this sort of thing. > > There are several. > > > It is not clear to most people (yes, that is a general sweeping > > statement) how one is supposed to divine the correct geometry. > > Because most people don't read the installation notes? No - because the ONLY thing in the install notes is to try a dos partition on it and hope sysinstall can figure it out from that. If you have a different set of notes, I dunno where you got them from. ------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Hovey -- shovey@buffnet.net root@buffnet.net
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