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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installation fails on root file system init... Date: 19 May 1996 12:37:53 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4nn4n1$1ii@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ni9pr$mms@cliff.island.net> <4nifid$rf9@cliff.island.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E myoung@cr.island.net (Michael Young) wrote: > My IDE drive geometry is 1024 cylinders, 5 heads, 33 sectors for a > total of 82.5MB - not 88MB as previously stated. I used these > settings in the partition editor. Is it ok to use all 1024 cylinders, > or should the last one be left out? You can use all of them. The important point is that the geometry as given to FreeBSD must match the one the BIOS is using. 88 MB are tight of space. I wouldn't subdivide it into / and /usr therefore, only assign some swap, and pick the rest as / file system. (The installation program warns you later about this, but since it was your deliberate decision to do so, you can go on.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)