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diff --git a/release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO_8859-1/drives.hlp b/release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO_8859-1/drives.hlp index 349ba7e..d924f8d 100644 --- a/release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO_8859-1/drives.hlp +++ b/release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO_8859-1/drives.hlp @@ -1,5 +1,3 @@ -Select the drive(s) you wish FreeBSD to be able to use. - If you are going to actually install some portion of FreeBSD on a drive then PLEASE BE VERY CERTAIN that the Geometry reported in the Partition Editor (see Installation Menu) is the correct one for your @@ -11,13 +9,20 @@ by either the IDE controller or a special boot-sector translation utility such as that by OnTrack Systems. In these cases, knowing the correct geometry gets even more complicated as it's not something you can easily tell by looking at the drive or the PC BIOS setup. The -best way of determining your geometry in such situations is to boot -DOS (from the hard disk, not a floppy!) and run the ``pfdisk'' utility -provided in the tools/ subdirectory of the FreeBSD CDROM or FTP site. -It will report the geometry that DOS sees, which is generally the -correct one. +best way of verifying that your geometry is being correctly calculated +in such situations is to boot DOS (from the hard disk, not a floppy!) +and run the ``pfdisk'' utility provided in the tools/ subdirectory of the +FreeBSD CDROM or FTP site. It will report the geometry that DOS sees, +which is generally the correct one. + +If you have no DOS partition sharing the disk at all, then you may find that +you have better luck with Geometry detection if you create a very small +DOS partition first, before installing FreeBSD. Once FreeBSD is installed +you can always delete it again if you need the space. -FreeBSD does its best to guess all of this automatically, of course, -but it sometimes fails which is why it's a good idea to check it. The -Partition Editor has a `(G)eometry' command that will allow you to -change it as necessary. +It's actually not a bad idea (believe it or not) to have a small bootable +DOS partition on your FreeBSD machine anyway: Should the machine become +unstable or exhibit strange behavior at some point in the future (which +is not uncommon behavior for PC hardware!) you can then at least use +DOS for installing and running one of the commercially available system +diagnostic utilities. |
