Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:07:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Greg Bauer <gbauer@telusplanet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation Drive Geometry Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807161507220.21519-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19980715231440.0095db40@mail.telusplanet.net>
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On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Greg Bauer wrote: > > I have recently purchased the Complete FreeBSD package(2.2.6). > I am installing it on a pentium 166 with 32 Mb ram. I have a > Western Digitial hard drive WDC AC32500H (4960cyl, 16hd, 63 spt). > I want to share the drive with Windows NT 4.0 and dos 6.22. > I have the drive partitioned with a 20 MB dos partition at the start > next free space of 250MB (for freeBSD), and the remainder of the > drive is and extended dos partition, with several logical drives. > > When I boot 2.2.6 from a floppy it detects the drive geometry wd0 as > 4960,16,63 (which is the actual drive geometry). I can obtain the bios > translated geometry as 619,128,63 with pfdisk. I the novice setup > the fdisk partition editor has 620,128,63. I assume this is because > pfdisk start numbering from 0 and fdisk starts numbering from 1? Suggestion: Don't worry about geometry unless it's causing a problem. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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