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From: "Joe Jackson" <jjackson@tnet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: two problems
Date: 6 Oct 1996 20:04:59 GMT
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well...a couple of lame questions...bear with me here...

I have an iomega jaz 1GB and have partitioned the disk in half and am
booting off it...(pretty cool...eh?)...well...i have installed it and after
a long session of trial and error have gotten it to work with a small error
message:

sd2 could not mode sense(4). Using fictitious geometry
1021MB(2091050 512 byte sectors)

any idea what is the problem?...it works fine but this message scares me!!

on with the rest...after i installed FreeBSD...i tried booting win95 on my
normal HD and it killed the boot record!!...(i reinstalled win95 and I am
ok!)...what happened there??

another question...how do i turn off the virtual desktop and my resolution
to 800x600...it currently is stuck at 640x480 and has a 1280x1024 virtual
desktop (annoying)...any help here??

last question...how do i mount my cdrom to work when i run sysconfig(or
install...can't remember)...it says that no cdrom was found yet that's
where i installed from...well...any help??