Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:11:10 +0200 From: Silakhdar Krikeb <Silakhdar.Krikeb@uab.ericsson.se> To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation =?iso-8859-1?Q?f=F6r?= a newbie Message-ID: <3B5BDC1E.1B819EB3@uab.ericsson.se> References: <3B57D7AA.CF662371@uab.ericsson.se> <002301c11277$8ee40180$8200a8c0@apana.org.au>
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1. Is not this problem a bug in the Freebsd:s FDISK EDITOR. Doug Young wrote: > > 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. 2. If I want to use multi-partitions, how can i determine the size of each partition. By the way, during the weekend I successfully installed openBSD2.9. The openbsd installation program hade no problem discovering the hard disk geometry. My best regards > > ----- 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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