Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 17:08:34 +0200 From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5-Alpha Installation Message-ID: <199506031508.RAA28440@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Jun 1995 17:01:18 %2B0200." <199506021501.JAA24405@sargon.mdl.sandia.gov>
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> How hard would it be to add a > probe command to the install program that would take a user > provided absolute sector number (or a cyl/hd/sec number set), > read that sector and return a read success or failure status. > That way a user could discover how big their disk really is, > then from that fake up some cyl/hd/sec values to get as close > as possible to that max abs sector value. The way I sized my disks (using 386bsd or mach way back when) was to put on a disklable much bigger than possible, then do a dd if=raw_device of=/dev/null, then take the count & feed it back to edit a new entry for /etc/disktab Julian S
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