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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!in2p3.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!u-psud.fr!news.u-psud.fr!souchu From: souchu@becassine.news.u-psud.fe (Nicolas Souchu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install Complexity Date: 17 Jan 1996 09:46:14 GMT Organization: Universite Paris-Sud, France. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <SOUCHU.96Jan17104614@becassine.news.u-psud.fe> References: <4ddq7e$3sg@wolfe.wimsey.com> <4dhkqh$r9@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: becassine.lri.fr In-reply-to: j@uriah.heep.sax.de's message of 17 Jan 1996 01:53:21 GMT Yes, FreeBSD is very easy when all is ok for your hardware, but when it fails, it fails. FreeBSD install is not enough documented for problems of HD disk geometry. Then it's hard to port FreeBSD to a critical hardware. For me it's impossible yet ! :^(( I've tried all solutions, DOS-compatible-partitioning, DOS-incompatible, the install is ok, but the system does not want to boot. My BIOS geometry is simple... 989/15/56 << 1024. Anybody could help me ? I've tried to read src/release files to understand the warnings during partitioning (4096 sectors / cylinder !! but my hardware accept 840 !), but... difficult. thanks in advance. nicolas -- -- Nicolas SOUCHU - DEA d'Architectures Paralleles 95 - LRI - France email: souchu@firtech.lri.fr - signature courte, le reseau dit "Ouf!"