got me hangin unless fbsd does use bios for ide On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Mike Loiterman wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday, January 08, 2003 5:54 PM Stephen Hovey <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > >> I think you're right. So should I just define the drive correctlt in > >> fdisk? If so, what would be the proper settings. > > > > > > usually a drive has em on the drive on something - a sticker/label > > sorta thing with head, cyl, sect, etc > > Ok I found out the proper numbers: > 39704 cyls, 16 heads, 63 sectors. > > I defined it that way in the BIOS. > > When I get to the fdisk part of the install I did 'G'. I then set the geometry >according to those numbers and told it to use the entire drive. When I go to define >the slices, though, it still thinks the drive is only 2 gigs. What am I doing wrong? > > - ------------------------------------------- > Randomly Generated Quote: > Time is nature's way of making sure > that everything doesn't happen at once. > > Mike Loiterman > PGP Key 0xD1B9D18E > http://www.ascendency.net > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP 8.0 > Comment: This message has been digitally signed by Mike Loiterman > > iQA/AwUBPhy/yWjZbUnRudGOEQJuMQCfdGPiziwQl63XRoKBezC+Qgc//SUAoNk6 > BQUYb3spQEflY3x6i4a2A71G > =AUgk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
