[GNUz] freebsd

[Rik Tindall]

dave wrote:

>used Frebsd 5.2 release (nick i think i gave you a copy of this)
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>have tried a couple of times with this version last time on a brand new shiny 
>200Gig Hd only for it to bork at the geometry settings looked at the bios 
>settings (partition i wanted to use was 20 gigs it gave me @ 1gig after 
>entering bios geometry settings and it got as far as installing selected apps 
>only to bork at no space!!!
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Sounds like you got thrown unecessarily. I got that 'wrong geometry' msg 
from the partitioner too, was told to ignore it, and installed no problem.

Gotcha is to get table correct with fdisk beforehand, & expect no 
Win-style extended partitions to be visible (use a primary - low hda/ad 
# - instead ) to install to.

>running oldish hardware (aptiva amd 500 with @ 386 ram).
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>
Should be a good use for that.

>would love to see it running and have another system to try out (a reason for 
>the big HD)
>
>dave.
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>
Where were you? ;-)

runs v.well

hth,

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