-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, January 09, 2003 4:16 AM Paul Everlund <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Mike Loiterman wrote: > >> 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? >> >> Mike Loiterman >> PGP Key 0xD1B9D18E >> http://www.ascendency.net > > Maybe this will work? Set it up in BIOS to be a 2 GB disk. Boot from > the floppy/CD, and in fdisk you should give the proper numbers. Create > two partitions. The first one to boot from, that should be less than 2 > GB, and the second should be the rest of the disk. Now create your > slices in the two partitions, and of course / should be on the first > one. Maybe this layout could be sufficient for you? > Partition 1 (2 GB): / 256 MB > (swap) 2*RAM > /var The rest of the available space... > Partition 2 (18 GB): /usr 18 GB > > Also make sure the jumpers are correctly set on the drive. Sometimes > the jumpers can be set to fake the disk size reported to the BIOS. > > Hope above information will make it work! > > Best regards, > Paul I think trying to fool the BIOS into recognizing it is an exercise in futility. I think my best bet would be to buy and ATA Card with on board BIOS Would that work with BSD? - ------------------------------------------- Randomly Generated Quote: 'Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.' -- Douglas Adams 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/AwUBPh9ANWjZbUnRudGOEQIF0gCfSN+pLIizx+smR6Gl74imgYC0pjgAoMZC aP0XOcahfNJ3n6F5OJvsnA3X =Nmy7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
