On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Systems Engineering wrote: > I am attempting an installation via the 5.1-R iso. During the > partitioning process, fdisk reports that the detected disk geometry is > probably incorrect. Subsequently, I attempt to specify the geometry > reported by bios (CSH:19158,255,16). This geometry is, however, > rejected. I have tried some variations, including the "sane" proposal > that fdisk makes after it reports that the detected disk geometry is > invalid. fdisk accepts them but this does not produce a bootable system > (not surprising). Let me guess. Is it limited to 2 GB? Youre disk probably has a jumper on it with enables it above 2GB. Regards, Richard. ---- Paul Vixie in an interview with Sendmail.net: Now that the Internet has the full spectrum of humanity as users, the technology is showing its weakness: it was designed to be used by friendly, smart people. Spammers, as an example of a class, are neither friendly nor smart.Received on Mon Jun 30 2003 - 10:40:30 UTC
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