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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Error at installation time concerning hard drive
Date: 7 Jun 1995 10:47:42 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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References: <3r1teu$13fa@firehose.mindspring.com>
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In article <3r1teu$13fa@firehose.mindspring.com>,
The Ottoman <ozzieg@mindspring.com> wrote:
>I am having trouble getting past the installation. I have the slices assigned and then proceed to the 
>next phase where a screen pops up "newfs /dev/?." After about 15 seconds an error message comes up 

Your Geometry is not correct.  Use a disk geometry with <16 heads.

					Jordan