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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!newsfeeder.gi.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tyger.inna.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Setting geometry important for SCSI disk? Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 06:16:18 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 15 Message-ID: <320745A2.59E2B600@FreeBSD.org> References: <4u42l7$ojk@mars.efn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Michelle Brownsworth <michelle@efn.org> Michelle Brownsworth wrote: > > I was under the impression that disk geometry was irrelevant and could > safely be ignored when installing on a large SCSI if the entire disk was > to be allocated to FreeBSD. I did an FTP install on a Seagate That is correct, it's just a pity that this option is not actually the one you chose when you installed your system. :-) If you want to ignore geometry in this way, what you have to do is use `A'(ll) in the Partition editor and they say No when it asks you if you want to remain cooperative with other OSes. If it asks you for a boot manager, you've chosen the wrong option. :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project