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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!pipex-sa.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!usenet From: Matt Sillitoe <matt@grunt.pling.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems with Installing 2.1 from IDE disk Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 17:58:12 +0000 Organization: Pling Lines: 17 Message-ID: <312B5D34.6450@grunt.pling.com> References: <NJW.96Feb21113403@kiska.svc.uk.sequent.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: int017.iptg.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) Nick Williams wrote: > I'm a tad stumped here in the initial installation stages for [ 2.1R > from CD: new IDE disk: writes bootblock/partition table, but can't > subsequently partition ] > [chop] You may have such problems with an EIDE controller: see sections 2.5.6/7 of the FAQ (the comp.unix.bsd NetBSD/FreeBSD/386BSD version); it suggests not probing the disk for the geometry (as will happen by default) but specifying it using the BIOS. Something about geometry translation? hope this helps Matt ;-)