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Date:      Tue, 5 Mar 1996 17:34:13 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        mcorbett@halcyon.com (Michael D. Corbett)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 2.1
Message-ID:  <199603050704.RAA17679@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.91.960304192621.9487A-100000@chinook.halcyon.com> from "Michael D. Corbett" at Mar 4, 96 08:00:56 pm

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Michael D. Corbett stands accused of saying:
> 
> Newbie attempting to install 2.1, please set phasors no higher than stun. :)
> 
> The system:
> 100 MHz Pentium, Intel Triton chipset.  PCI Bus.
> Adaptec AHA-2940 PCI-to-Fast SCSI Host Adaptor.
> Connor CFP1080S 4649 1.02 Gb hard drive (Drive 0, for BSD)
> Connor CFP1080S 4649 1.02 Gb hard drive (Drive 1, for Linux)
> Toshiba 6X SCSI CD ROM.
> 
> The background:
> Brand new system, BSD is the first thing being loaded.  Installation 
> seems to go fine, all hardware is recognized with no problems.  I start a 
> "Novice Installation"  Seemed appropriate.
> 
> First sign of trouble:
> FDISK (or whatever it's called in BSD land) complains about the Geometry 
> of drive 0.  I notice it's set to 1030/64/32.  I read the docs.  Seems I 
> should change it to have fewer than 1024 cylenders.  Okay, I make it 
> 515/128/32.  I do this for both drives, as I'm putting the swap partition 
> for BSD on the second hard drive.

Putting the swap there is a Bad Idea.  (Especially as a newbie 8)

Slap a DOS partition on the first disk and overwrite it when you install
BSD; there's a disagreement between the installer and the BIOS as to
the disk geometry.  1024 cyls doesn't matter for SCSI disks, btw.

> Mike Corbett                                             Fax: +1.206.885.1087

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