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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!tk2x+ From: Timothy J Kniveton <tim+@CMU.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: fdisk Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 19:10:50 -0500 Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4hIiE_y00VpN0pnnQN@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <0hI0M_u00WB7EC5GkR@andrew.cmu.edu> <2ipjg4$mcq@explorer.clark.net> <2is1is$392@keltia.frmug.fr.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: po6.andrew.cmu.edu In-Reply-To: <2is1is$392@keltia.frmug.fr.net> i am becoming more and more confused about the issue of disk geometries. not being an expert on the subject, i don't know which one is important for which application, and when i see disk geometry, am i seeing physical? translated? BIOS? all i want to do is this: have a FreeBSD partition and a DOS partition. i installed FreeBSD with the default geometry, which didn't work with a DOS partition. so, what do i need to do to get it working with a DOS partition? if i need to re-partition, i have a tape backup so that's not really a problem. also, if i install another drive and put DOS on it, would i need to re-partition my BSD drive just so they will work together? please, these are simple questions, and i'm sure someone can provide simple answers...