Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 22:11:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Dennis Perry <drp@mds.rmit.edu.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A dud CDROM copy or Drive Geometry problems? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960802220849.535B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19960802042054.006b7ba8@mailserver.citri.edu.au>
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On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Dennis Perry wrote: > I have been trying for several days to install FreeBSD 2.1 from the Walnut > Creek January 1996 DCROM distribution. > IT486SMV motherboard (with 2 VL-Bus slots) with a 1992 AMIBIOS (with > automatic disk detection, but no LBA or Large disk support) > 486DX2-66 Intel Overdrive processor and 20 Mb RAM > Lighting Speed VL-Bus I/O Controller (SIDE jr Pro) with on board BIOS with > support for IDE > 528Mb (>1024 cylinders) in either LBA or XCHS modes > Western Digital Caviar AC31000 (2100/16/63 1083.8Mb) > > I partitioned the 1 Gb drive into one DOS partition and then used FIPS to > create a second partition. The DOS partition is 400Mb and the FreeBSD is > 600Mb. The root partition for FreeBSD should still be within the first 504 > Mb -- Yes? You may be running into the FIPS problem with large partitions. Blow away all the slices. Install DOS first, making the DOS slice 400mb, leaving the rest of the disk unallocated. Then install FreeBSD in the remaining space. > Partition Table Corrupt - end partition 1 The above should remedy this. 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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