Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency

2004-05-03 Thread Carsten Zimmermann
Hello list. I know this had been discussed quite often, but none of the posting google offered worked out for me. Please (B)Cc: me as I am not on the list. I have a Western Digital WDC WD400AB-00CMB0 40 GB IDE drive hooked in as pri slave in my system and wish to install FreeBSD on it. This is

Re: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency

2004-05-03 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Monday 03 May 2004 18:33, Carsten Zimmermann wrote: Hello list. I know this had been discussed quite often, but none of the posting google offered worked out for me. Please (B)Cc: me as I am not on the list. I have a Western Digital WDC WD400AB-00CMB0 40 GB IDE drive hooked in as pri

Re: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency

2004-05-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello list. I know this had been discussed quite often, but none of the posting google offered worked out for me. Please (B)Cc: me as I am not on the list.= =20 I have a Western Digital WDC WD400AB-00CMB0 40 GB IDE drive hooked in as pri slave in my system and wish to install FreeBSD

Re: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency

2004-05-03 Thread Carsten Zimmermann
Thanks for the answers so far. I tried to use the autocorrected values, of course. But I can't create a partition with them (as said: I was able to delete a NTFS partition w/o problems). When I try to write the partition table, sysinstall / fdisk catches signal 11. It seems fdisk is not able to

RE: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency

2004-05-03 Thread Peters Micheal A Contr GSI/SCBN
Ok, which OS was installed on it before trying to install BSD? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carsten Zimmermann Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 1:03 PM To: Malcolm Kay Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Partitioning fails due to drive

RE: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency

2004-05-03 Thread JJB
FreeBSD install cd in drive and reboot system to start install. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carsten Zimmermann Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 1:03 PM To: Malcolm Kay Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry

Re: Partitioning fails due to drive geometry inconsistency

2004-05-03 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Carsten Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-05-03 02:08]: Hello list. I know this had been discussed quite often, but none of the posting google offered worked out for me. Please (B)Cc: me as I am not on the list. I have a Western Digital WDC WD400AB-00CMB0 40 GB IDE drive hooked in as