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From: peter@citylink.dinoex.sub.org (Peter Much)
Subject: Re: I need help installing 2.0.5 with Ontrack
Keywords: ontrack
Organization: Buero fuer Sektenforschung und Qualitaetspruefung in der Esoterik
Message-ID: <DAGq5K.617@citylink.dinoex.sub.org>
References: <3rps45$o6j@acmey.gatech.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 08:27:20 GMT
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In article <3rps45$o6j@acmey.gatech.edu>,
Bhagia <ccastsu@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
>I am having a great deal of trouble installing to an EIDE disk with
>a standard IDE controller and no LBA support. I have tried with
>and with out Ontrack and can not get it to work either way. I have
>even tried creating the partion with Ontrack and then I let 2.0.5 install
>to it, but each time it screws up on the labeling or partioning.
- If You do not need more than 500 MB /per disk/ for DOS, then
DON'T USE ONTRACK.
- If You need more than 500 MB per disk for DOS, then use two disks,
one with Ontrack and only for DOS, one without Ontrack for *BSD and
maybe additional 500MB DOS.
- If You want to use Ontrack on a disk with a *BSD partition on it,
then don't ask me how this will work - i don't know.
- If You had Ontrack already installed, there is the possibility that
it has changed the content of the masterboot-sector in a way that
even "fdisk /mbr" won't remove it any more, unless booted via floppy.
Now:
- Your drive manufacturer has given You some data about the drive.
This should contain three values: Nr. of Sectors (usually 63)
Nr. of Heads (usually 16)
Nr. of Cyls. (usually between
1024 and 4095)
The configuration of Your mainboard (usually called Cmos-setup) should
be given exactly these values (harddisk, user-defined-type).
- DOS now can only access cyls. up to 1023, which will give about 500 MB.
- The fdisk and disklabel tools of *BSD should now report the drive geo-
metry with the same values as entered in the mainboard config. If they
report some strange other values, especially some higher number of
heads and a lower number of cylinders, then some LBA-mode or Ontrack-
driver is still active.
- From this point, the installation should work.
At least, this is how we are handling this here.
Peter
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