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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