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Date:      Tue, 16 Jul 2002 02:11:52 +0300
From:      "Giorgos Keramidas" <charon@labs.gr>
To:        "Jeff Feller" <jeff@bitz.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Install -- FDISK
Message-ID:  <002001c22c55$02c80360$d4f4cdd4@LocalHost>
References:  <004e01c22c52$f1ab48f0$a500a8c0@zanardi>

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   Jeff Feller <jeff@bitz.net> wrote:
   > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.6 on a Pentium 133
   > with a Western Digital 40 GB Hard Drive (WD400BB).
   > The BIOS and everywhere else see's it as a 40 GB
   > drive but when I get into FreeBSD's FDISK part it
   > thinks it's a 2 GB drive.  

Sounds like disk geometry problems.  Read the Handbook
section (in the installation chapter) that talks about
disk geometries and what BIOS thinks the disk is... etc.




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