Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 07:58:06 -0600 From: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) To: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5-Alpha Installation Message-ID: <199506051358.HAA21496@sargon.mdl.sandia.gov> In-Reply-To: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> "Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5-Alpha Installation" (Jun 3, 5:08pm)
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On Jun 3, 5:08pm, Julian Howard Stacey wrote: > Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5-Alpha Installation > > > 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 I used to do something like that too, but I don't see how to do that with the new install program (not that I'm unhappy-- I just don't know how to use it yet). --alan
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