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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
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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

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