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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!news.larc.nasa.gov!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!inXS.uu.net!news.vcnet.com!jons7500.vc.net!user From: jon@vcnet.com (Jon Rust) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: fdisk Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 13:09:12 -0700 Organization: Internet Access of Ventura County 805.383.3500 Lines: 58 Message-ID: <jon-1707961309120001@jons7500.vc.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: jons7500.vc.net X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.1.2 I'm a recent Linux transfer. I was using Linux for inn, but I like the FreeBSD system better. Except for fdisk. Linux has this cool utility called cfdisk. Never had any problems adding new scsi drives using that utility along with mkfs or mke2fs. I tried adding scsi drives last night to my new f'bsd machine, and spent 6 or 7 hours banging my head against the wall. After several reformats on a stable scsi based system, I finally got f'bsd to recognize and install onto the scsi system. Unfortunately, the only way I could do it was through a complete reinstall of the whole system. Not real convenient. I've got two questions: Is there a more userfriendly interface to fdisk and disklabel? Damn, you'd have to study the man pages, and a boat load of books to understand everything involved with these two programs. An unnecassary level of detail as demonstrated by the relatively clean and easy Linux method. This questions a little more pressing. When I brought up the installer, and started labeling partitions, it complained about the geometry being bad on my 2gig and my 4gig drive. First I tried letting it change it what it wanted to, and that fried the whole shabang. Had to reformat everything and start over. Then I tried ignoring the message. Installation went okay, but whenever the system comes up, right after it says "BIOS loaded successfully!" I get a warning mesage about a "device large than 1 gig using such and such cylinder/head scheme when the card is using such and such. Data corruption may occur..." It scares the shit out of me, but adter staring blankly at fdisk and disklabel for hours, I still have no cure. Pointers, help, advice (besides RTFM -- maybe read THIS PARTICULAR manual or page) would be greatly appreciated. 486dx4133 - FreeBSD 2.10 RELEASE Adaptec 2940 4g seagate baracuda 2g conner 500M dec IDE 2g western digital 3c509 INN 1.4 unoff4 Thanks a million, jon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jon Rust <http://www.vcnet.com/> VCNet For info, call us or email to 805.383.3500 info@vcnet.com PGP Fingerprint = 58 55 6C 46 4C 2B 7E 65 BB 35 AB 02 E1 27 73 7B "African swallows maybe, but not a European swallow. That's my point." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----------------------------------------------------------- Jon Rust jon@vcnet.com Internet Access of Ventura County 805.383.3500 info@vcnet.com -----------------------------------------------------------