From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 30 10:20:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp011.mail.yahoo.com (smtp011.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3CC1537B401 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:20:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jjorloff@yahoo.com) Received: from c1442610-a.crvlls1.or.home.com (HELO c1442610a) (65.0.113.184) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Jul 2001 17:20:40 -0000 X-Apparently-From: From: "Jason J. Orloff" To: Subject: Hang on Mounting Hard Drive during Install Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 08:17:43 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi- I have been trying to install FreeBSD 4.2 on a 30.7 GB Western Digital Drive Serial# WMA6W1002163 Model# WD307BB. My problem is that FreeBSD seems to double the size to a 60GB drive as shown in FDISK during the Install. I changed the drive geometry to 16383x16x63 but the minimal install with automatic space usage and automatic partitioning still seems to hang on . I also tried starting with a small DOS partition as suggested on Page 101, "Installation Problems: Can't find correct geometry" in the 3rd edition of the "The Complete FreeBSD", but it still hung. Any ideas? Jason _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message