Ok. Thanks for the answers.
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>From a high level view, it means you don't have access to 4.6 meg of
data space on a 40 gig hard drive. That represents 1/1 of the
disk space you do have available to you. Don't worry about it, install
the OS and enjoy FreeBSD.
> > 2) When installing FreeBSD, sysinstall warns that a geometr
Robert Storey wrote:
You've encountered a well-known bug in the installer. I've experienced
it too and so have many others.
During the install, when you're in the fdisk partition editor, just
hitting "g" is usually all you have to do to correct the bug. If you've
already installed, I'm not sure wha
> > 2) When installing FreeBSD, sysinstall warns that a geometry of the
> > first drive (1) as it detects it (77545/16/63) is incorrect and
> > can't be used. It automatically replaces the values with
> > 4865/255/63. The problem is that after replacing the geometry with
> > 4865/255/63 the number
On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 13:37:49 +0200, roman wrote:
>>
> I have two Western Digital hard drives, (1) WD400BB (40GB) and (2)
> WD300BB (30GB) and an Asus CUS-L2C motherboard (Intel 815EP chipset).
> The manufacturer website doesn't provide the CHS geometry for the
> drives, but lists the number of LBA
Hi, I would like to try FreeBSD but recently I've encountered several
problems with the detection of my hard drives' geometry, so I have a few
questions. I hope this is the right place to ask...
First I would like to say that my understanding of this issue is minor,
so if my questions seem stupid,
