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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!eff!news.umbc.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!tk2x+ From: Timothy J Kniveton <tim+@CMU.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: fdisk Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 14:59:06 -0500 Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 6 Message-ID: <0hI0M_u00WB7EC5GkR@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: po2.andrew.cmu.edu are there any plans for FreeBSD to support a linux-style fdisk, which *correctly* recognizes the disks' geometry? after hours of failed attempts to install FreeBSD with a DOS partition, i gave up and just installed FreeBSD (which works fine now). later, i found out that it was because the FreeBSD boot disks were giving incorrect geometry for the disk.