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Date:      Tue, 5 Aug 2008 07:26:53 -0500
From:      "Edward Ruggeri" <smallhand@crawblog.com>
To:        "Slick Bo" <slickwillbo42@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sorry - plaintext this time - Disk geometry and two OSes.
Message-ID:  <919383240808050526n2a80da53w281d2c607dc1734a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <329482.19217.qm@web59816.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
References:  <329482.19217.qm@web59816.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>

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On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Slick Bo <slickwillbo42@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've
> seen a few people on this mailing list say that disk geometry really
> doesn't matter that much, and the OS usually works fine despite
> apparent errors. But I'd prefer to be able to keep my windows installation.
> If I let sysinstall change the disk geometry, will it create problems
> for the files on "0" and the WinXP installation? If so, do you know of
> an alternate way to find the disk geometry, and should I directly give
> these results to sysinstall? Will that fix my problem?

This is something I've wondered about, but blithely ignored.

What does the warning really mean?  Why doesn't it matter?

-- Ned Ruggeri



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