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Date:      Wed, 02 Jun 2004 11:16:19 +0200
From:      Roman Oistacher <rcher@inter.net.il>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Disk geometry salad...
Message-ID:  <40BD9AE3.9050704@inter.net.il>
In-Reply-To: <20040602060214.07c72867.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net>
References:  <200406011423.i51ENcUG001683@mist.nodomain> <20040602060214.07c72867.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net>

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Robert Storey wrote:

> 
> You've encountered a well-known bug in the installer. I've experienced
> it too and so have many others.
> 
> During the install, when you're in the fdisk partition editor, just
> hitting "g" is usually all you have to do to correct the bug. If you've
> already installed, I'm not sure what you can do to correct the bug other
> than go back and reinstall, this time hitting "g". There might be
> another way to change disk geometry without doing that, but I don't know
> how (anybody reading this know?).
> 

After complaining about an incorrect geometry, sysinstall (or Fdisk)
automatically enters the values it finds 'more appropriate' as the
geometry. Hitting 'g' simply opens a dialog where I'm supposed to enter
the geometry manually.





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