On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Slick Bo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've
> seen a few people on this mailing list say that disk geometry really
> doesn't matter that much, and the OS usually works fine despite
> apparent errors. But I'd prefer to be able to keep my windows installation.
> If I le
On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 18:02:52 -0700 (PDT)
Slick Bo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I let sysinstall change the disk geometry, will it create
> problems for the files on "0" and the WinXP installation?
NO. You can safely do it. And if you don't like the fbsd bootloader you
can always change to anot
Hi everyone,
I have two 37GB (nominally 40GB) IDE/ATA disk drives. I'm trying to leave my
Windows XP SP1 installation on the one that shows up as "0" (ad0 in sysinstall),
and giving the entire other drive to FreeBSD. When creating a boot
agent for the 0 drive, sysinstall complains about incorrec
