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From: guenther@starbase.neosoft.com (Eb Guenther)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IDE Drives
Date: 17 Aug 1994 19:24:24 GMT
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Terry Lambert (terry@cs.weber.edu) wrote:
: In article <32e188$3me@uuneo.neosoft.com> guenther@NeoSoft.com (Ed Guenther) writes:
: ] I'm a novice in Unix, trying to install FreeBSD on a brand new IDE drive.

: THis is probably not the group to post this question, since it is FreeBSD
: specific.  You should probably be posting to comp.os.386.bsd.? or

8-) You did catch the part about me being a Novice? So how could I know
the differnece between "comp.unix.bsd" and "comp.os.386.bsd"?

: However, I believe if you will use clylinder 1 instead of 0 (or 0 instead
: of 1) you will defeat the geometry translation problem which is giving
: you the error.

While my problem is solved now, I would like to know what you meant.
Are you refering to the offset of the boot partition? or what?

Thanks,

Eb