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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!cdc2.cdc.net!news1.cris.com!galileo.cris.com!Rslater From: Rslater@cris.com (Rick Slater) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: INSTALLATION: Problems with partition step Date: 4 Mar 1996 15:27:53 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4hf25p$na2@spectator.cris.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: galileo.cris.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I'm having a problem with the FreeBSD 2.1 installation cdrom. It seems that I can't get the install script to correctly interpret the partition table on my IDE hard drive. On startup, the utility sees the hard drive as containing 512 cylinders rather than the correct number of 713. When I manually override the geometry information so that the total number of cylinders is correct, the partition utility will still not allow me to use any cylinder beyond 512! Neither the fdisk from DOS nor the fdisk from Linux suffer from this problem. I'd really like to give FreeBSD a try, but unless I can get reasonable partition sizes, it looks like I'll be installing Linux again. Does anyone know af a way to force FreeBSD to go with manually entered data? Thanks -- Rick -- I am Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be approximated.