Re: Installing on large disk
On March 25, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John C Nolen wrote: I have a 40 GB hard disk that was made in 2001 with windows xp installed on a 20 GB partition. BIOS setup says 19158 cylinders, 16 heads and 255 sectors. I want to install freeBSD on the second 20 GB partition. All the instructions seem to refer to small disks, as they appear to require cylinders less than 1023. Sysinstall appears to require cylinders less than 1023. Did I miss something? Is it possible to install BSD as a dual operating system with windows xp on a disk larger than 8 GB ? Am I trying to do something impossible? Should I just ignore warnings and type in 1023 when asked about cylinders? If I uninstall the windows xp can I put freeBSD on one big 40GB partition? I could not find any information on this in handbook or FAQ. Yes, just ignore the cylinder warnings.. Interesting thing is that I never got those and I have installed FBSD on multiple 80GB disks :). -Garrett I had this problem a long time ago, when the FreeBSD 3.3 was current. Those instructions refer to those days I think. Do you install 6.2? Where are you asked to type the cylinder info? What kind of an installation do you do? Usually, defaults in sysinstall would be fine. Andriy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing on large disk
The 1023 cylinder limit is BIOS limit for booting. If your BIOS is more modern it will support booting from translated cylinder addresses 1023. The easiest way to tell is to try updating your BIOS, and trying the install. With older hardware I would have to have boot partitions all located at 1023 cylinders so you'd have the / partition and a windows c: drive both 1023 on a dual boot system. This limit has mostly disappeared with more modern BIOS that will address and boot drives at 1023. -Derek At 03:50 PM 3/25/2007, John C Nolen wrote: I have a 40 GB hard disk that was made in 2001 with windows xp installed on a 20 GB partition. BIOS setup says 19158 cylinders, 16 heads and 255 sectors. I want to install freeBSD on the second 20 GB partition. All the instructions seem to refer to small disks, as they appear to require cylinders less than 1023. Sysinstall appears to require cylinders less than 1023. Did I miss something? Is it possible to install BSD as a dual operating system with windows xp on a disk larger than 8 GB ? Am I trying to do something impossible? Should I just ignore warnings and type in 1023 when asked about cylinders? If I uninstall the windows xp can I put freeBSD on one big 40GB partition? I could not find any information on this in handbook or FAQ. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing on large disk
I have a 40 GB hard disk that was made in 2001 with windows xp installed on a 20 GB partition. BIOS setup says 19158 cylinders, 16 heads and 255 sectors. I want to install freeBSD on the second 20 GB partition. All the instructions seem to refer to small disks, as they appear to require cylinders less than 1023. Sysinstall appears to require cylinders less than 1023. Did I miss something? Is it possible to install BSD as a dual operating system with windows xp on a disk larger than 8 GB ? Am I trying to do something impossible? Should I just ignore warnings and type in 1023 when asked about cylinders? If I uninstall the windows xp can I put freeBSD on one big 40GB partition? I could not find any information on this in handbook or FAQ. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing on large disk
John C Nolen wrote: I have a 40 GB hard disk that was made in 2001 with windows xp installed on a 20 GB partition. BIOS setup says 19158 cylinders, 16 heads and 255 sectors. I want to install freeBSD on the second 20 GB partition. All the instructions seem to refer to small disks, as they appear to require cylinders less than 1023. Sysinstall appears to require cylinders less than 1023. Did I miss something? Is it possible to install BSD as a dual operating system with windows xp on a disk larger than 8 GB ? Am I trying to do something impossible? Should I just ignore warnings and type in 1023 when asked about cylinders? If I uninstall the windows xp can I put freeBSD on one big 40GB partition? I could not find any information on this in handbook or FAQ. Yes, just ignore the cylinder warnings.. Interesting thing is that I never got those and I have installed FBSD on multiple 80GB disks :). -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
