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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install on EIDE drive with DOS (actually, Win95) too... (yawn) Date: 16 Aug 1995 07:17:28 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 22 Message-ID: <40s628$3aq@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <11491174wnr@browns.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <11491174wnr@browns.co.uk>, Alistair Bell <alistair@browns.co.uk> wrote: >I have a 2100 cylinder drive (WD Caviar if it's relevant). Somewhere >the BIOS translates it to 525 cylinders and 64 heads. I tried to >install FreeBSD 2.0 (I'm annoyed that our Walnut Creek redistributor >sent me 2.0 rather than 2.0.5, but we'll leave that unless it's >relevant...) where the disk has and will continue to have DOS (actually Well, I don't know if it's relevant but Walnut Creek CDROM doesn't like mistakes like this and if you send mail to orders@cdrom.com informing them of your plight, they'll send you a free 2.0.5 CD in the next day's mail. You don't have to send the old one back - we trust you. >Now, the question. Given that DOS won't be able to access the disk if I >manage to turn geometry translation off (I have an 800M DOS partition >and I want it to stay that way!) am I completely hosed if I want to >install FreeBSD on that disk too, or is there a way to do it? Did you try specifying the translated geometry to FreeBSD with the `(G)eometry' command? This should work! Jordan