Hi,
I'm using win2k an freebsd 6.0 on my laptop too, and I've been
reinstalling freebsd pretty often (I'm still tring my way to have it
working, so I started with 5.4 and than moved to 4.11 and 6.0) without
ever changing my win partition.
As you say, I'm always prompted about incorrect
Thanks Lila, your success encouraged me to try and you were quite right
that your win partition is pretty safe with freebsd fdisk.
Unfortunately the install failed saying:
Write failure on transfer! (wrote 77187 bytes of 1425408 bytes)
And loads of errors like the following were shown on the
-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Using 'incorrect' HD geometry.
Thanks Lila, your success encouraged me to try and you were quite
right
that your win partition is pretty safe with freebsd fdisk.
Unfortunately the install failed saying:
Write failure on transfer! (wrote 77187 bytes of 1425408 bytes
fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Write failure on transfer! (wrote 77187 bytes of 1425408 bytes)
When I got this error message during install it mean the hard drive
had a bad spot on it.
This had nothing to do with the hd geometry used. Bet your hd is
udma 33. Think this is a bug in fbsd
Mr J. Happy Chappy here, just noting a few observations:
Jerry McAllister's and Lila's suggestions were quite right that the
installer's fdisk would not affect the other partitions on the HD
if it's allowed to just do its thing. Its interpretation of the
geometry was entirely useful.
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, John Murphy wrote:
Thanks Lila, your success encouraged me to try and you were quite right
that your win partition is pretty safe with freebsd fdisk.
Unfortunately the install failed saying:
Write failure on transfer! (wrote 77187 bytes of 1425408 bytes)
And
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nowdays, the geometry on the drives seems to be 'virtual' and so
you should just let the installer/fdisk do what it wants and leave
it that way. If it doesn't work the way the installer wants to
then there may be a problem. But if it works, just ignore
I'm currently dual booting FreeBSD-5.3 and Windows 2000 on a WD800BB
80GB IDE HD. It all seems to be working very well, but now I want to
install 6.0 on the slice where 5.3 is. fdisk -s currently says:
Nowdays, the geometry on the drives seems to be 'virtual' and so
you should just let the
