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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
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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