From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 22:59:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA18847 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 22:59:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA18818 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 22:59:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA17679; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 17:34:14 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603050704.RAA17679@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 2.1 To: mcorbett@halcyon.com (Michael D. Corbett) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 17:34:13 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Michael D. Corbett" at Mar 4, 96 08:00:56 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[