Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 08:53:31 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jason A. Pfeil" <pfeil@nu.cs.fsu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation onto LARGE HD (10.1GB) (fwd) Message-ID: <19990306085331.X490@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9903051147430.13495-100000@xi>; from Jason A. Pfeil on Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 11:50:52AM -0500 References: <19990305143159.T490@lemis.com> <Pine.GSO.4.10.9903051147430.13495-100000@xi>
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On Friday, 5 March 1999 at 11:50:52 -0500, Jason A. Pfeil wrote: > On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Thursday, 4 March 1999 at 20:57:06 -0500, Jason A. Pfeil wrote: >>> On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> >>>> On Thursday, 4 March 1999 at 20:50:09 -0500, Jason A. Pfeil wrote: >>>>> On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Thursday, 4 March 1999 at 17:28:14 -0500, Jason A. Pfeil wrote: >>>>>>> Unfortunately, it appears that the installation program can't handle >>>>>>> HD's with >1024 cylinders. Is this the case? >>>>>> >>>>>> No. >>>>>> >>>>>>> Another option would be to use FreeBSD's installation proggy to >>>>>>> delete the already-created partition and create a new one. Any >>>>>>> ideas? >>>>>> >>>>>> That's what I was suggesting above. But if you don't want to change >>>>>> the size of the partition, changing the partition type would do. >>>>> >>>>> Unfortunately, I tried to change the type of the partition to 165 >>>>> (freebsd). I guess I'll have to try to change the size of the partition. >>>> >>>> What's unfortunate about that? What went wrong? >>> >>> That's what I tried originally. It was after that that I sent the >>> original message. >> >> I'm not sure what this statement has to do with my question. I'm >> prepared to help, but this is supposed to be a dialogue, not a series >> of unsubstantiated statements. > > Jeez. I am trying to have a dialog. Then answer my questions. > The first thing I did during the > installation was to change the type of the partition to freebsd. The > installation program told me to do that. It still wouldn't let me create > any slices. For the fifth time, what was the message? > I guess it's that the root partiton of freebsd would end in a > cylinder number > 1023. This coming week is Spring Break and I will > try the copying of all data off the drive and low-level formatting > the drive and then seeing if the BIOS LBA will see the drive as > having < 1024 cylinders but >> 63 heads. You're not listening. > I'll report back with my findings. Don't bother. I can't be bothered any more. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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