Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:54:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: charon@freethought.org Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: partitions and 3.0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810221054060.1458-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981019152647.00a04100@mail>
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On Mon, 19 Oct 1998 charon@freethought.org wrote: > When I tried to install 3.0 using the novice option, I get what I believe > to be an error in the FDISK partition editor. All the partitions of the > 3909 MB drive I'm using are read as _double_ their actual size (e.g. a > 1024000 byte partition looks like it's 2048000 bytes). I haven't gone any > further in the installation process because I'd like to avoid wiping out > both Win95 and WinNT, which are already installed (I'm prepared for them to > be wiped out, I'd just rather avoid it). I successfully installed 2.2.6 > and 2.2.7 on this same machine without any problems at all. Can anyone > explain this to me? They're expressed as 512 byte blocks. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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