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From: myoung@cr.island.net (Michael Young)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installation fails on root file system init...
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 18:11:51 GMT
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My IDE drive geometry is 1024 cylinders, 5 heads, 33 sectors for a
total of 82.5MB - not 88MB as previously stated.  I used these
settings in the partition editor.  Is it ok to use all 1024 cylinders,
or should the last one be left out?


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Michael Young <myoung@cr.island.net>