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Date:      Sun, 05 Apr 1998 09:54:49 -0400
From:      Jason Sabella <jsabella@ic.sunysb.edu>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD installation
Message-ID:  <35278D29.264687C@ic.sunysb.edu>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980403191047.11299J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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You are right Doug, it is reading my zip disk (which is 100mb like you
said).  I watched closely at boot up, and it said wd2 is my zip drive. 
I checked, and fdisk does not prompt you as to what disk you want to
use.  And I went through the installation options and that is not one of
them.  All it has is novice, custom, and expert installations. All do
pretty much the same and take you right into fdisk.  There is no option
in fdisk to change disk.  I've even tried pressing every key on the
keyboard in fdisk, thinking maybe its just not listed...It's so weird,
any suggestions?

							Jason Sabella

---

Doug White wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Jason Sabella wrote:
> 
> > Hi Doug.  I only have the one hard 6.4 GIG hard drive.  I don't know
> > what that "wd2" is.  Is that possibly a wrong partition?  Is there a way
> > to change it to a different "wd" in the install program(if such a thing
> > exists).  My current configuration is this:
> 
> You should be prompted before going into fdisk for which disk you want.
> 
> Post your boot message output again.
> 
> > But the installation program still says:
> > Disk name:  wd2  <<-----
> > Disk Geometry: 512 cyls/12 heads/32 sectors = 196608 sectors
> > Offset    Size    End    Name    Ptype Desc    Subtype   Flags
> > 0         32      31     -       6     unused  0
> > 32        196192  196223 wd2s1   2     fat     6         =
> > 196224    384     196607 -       6     unused  0
> 
> Hm, 196608 * 512 bytes == 100663296 bytes, or a 100mb drive.
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major

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