info
on the drive geometry bug.
I followed the directions I found there - essentially, go into my BIOS at
boot time, write down the drive geometry that the BIOS thinks I have and
then plug those numbers into FreeBSD fdisk at the beginning of
installation.
What happened:
1. FreeBSD
I am trying to back up the drive I have been using (which is now full)
onto a 60GB Seagate IDE drive - ST360020A. After a bunch of failures at
configuring the disk, I did some searching on the web and found some info
on the drive geometry bug.
I followed the directions I found there - essentially
