Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 16:28:34 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Silakhdar Krikeb" <Silakhdar.Krikeb@uab.ericsson.se>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_FreeBSD_installation_f=F6r_a_newbie?= Message-ID: <002301c11277$8ee40180$8200a8c0@apana.org.au> References: <3B57D7AA.CF662371@uab.ericsson.se>
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The experts probably regard this as a "technical" question that would be better posted to the questions rather than the newbies list. Personally I've always regarded multi-O/S boot managers as evil ... a far more straightforward solution is to use a totally separate hard drive for each operating system. As long as you don't have messy boot sector stuff, FreeBSD doesn't appear to be particularly concerned about hard drive size. eg I've got a few old Digital Venturis / Celebris systems with BIOS that identified 4 & 8 Gb drives as 99Mb, but most of them find the correct amount of space during installation. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Silakhdar Krikeb" <Silakhdar.Krikeb@uab.ericsson.se> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 5:03 PM Subject: FreeBSD installation för a newbie > Hi! > I'm trying to install FreeBSD (freebsd 4.3-release) for the first time. > Earlier i hade linux and win98 that worked fine. I removed linux and > repartitioned the mig hard disk into two primary partitions (i used > PartitionMagic). the win98 partition is 1800M. The Freebsd partition > would be about 4349M. > The problem that i faced was that Freebsd didn't recognize the geometry > of my harddisk, which is 784/255/63 (C/H/S). > FreeBSD's FDISK editor show allways the value 204/255/63 (which means > that the harddisk has only 1880M) > I tried to change the values (C/H/S) from the FDISK EDITOR during the > installation process using the the commando G = set set geometry. But > this didn't work. > Any idea what to do? > > > With best regards. > Silakhdar Krikeb > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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