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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!eru.mt.luth.se!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!news-in2.uu.net!news.cybercom.net!ksmm From: ksmm@cybercom.net (The Classiest Man Alive) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: two problems Date: 8 Oct 1996 21:24:29 GMT Organization: Cyber Access Internet Communications, Inc. Lines: 46 Message-ID: <53egqd$fu4@orion.cybercom.net> References: <01bbb3c2$5b544fa0$ee4b6cce@me.interlog.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell1.cybercom.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Joe Jackson (jjackson@tnet.com) wrote: : 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) I use a jaz drive in the same way. (You're right, it is way cool. :-) ) Anyways, I think that the problem is that unless told to do otherwise by the iomega drivers, the drive reports itself as removable which confuses FreeBSD's drive detection (and some Microsoft installers. Try putting MS Office onto one of those things.) I think that the confusion is compounded by the fact that the jaz accepts two different size cartriges (540 MB and 1 GB). I think the drive works around it by reporting some "assumed" or fictitios geometry. That's my theory, anyway. : 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?? The installer has options to leave the boot record untouched, erase it, or install the Booteasy manager...you may have chosen the wrong one. : 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?? You can edit the /etc/XF86Config file. Toward the bottom are some pretty easy to understand sections describing the size of the virtual screen and the resolution. You can change these values to something more suitable. The resolution can be changed on the fly by pressing CTRL-ATL-Keypad + (i.e., the "+" on the numeric keypad). Running xf86config as root will give you the option to change your available resolutions. : 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?? "mount /cdrom" as root should do it if you installed from the CD-ROM. This assumes that the installer put the entry in your /etc/fstab. K.S.