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Added the following to the opening statement of install:

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Before starting, it is important to know your hard disk's geometry
(i.e., number of cylinders, heads and sectors/track).  If installing
FreeBSD on the same disk as another operating system, then the
two systems should use the same geometry.  In particular, FreeBSD's
default geometry is inappropriate for MS-DOS.  So in this case, the
DOS geometry should be used instead.

[This seems to be true for SCSI disks.   What about IDE?  With the new
boot blocks, can we ignore the disks true geometry??]
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Andrew Moore 1993-09-17 09:05:52 +00:00
parent dbc93016fb
commit 9483b7bb0e
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00 
svn path=/head/; revision=475
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@ -375,16 +375,17 @@ echo
echo "This program is designed to help put ${OPSYSTEM} on a hard disk with"
echo "at least $DISKMIN Megabytes of free space."
echo
echo "If other operating systems are already on the disk, ${OPSYSTEM}"
echo "should be able to install alongside them. Otherwise, if the disk"
echo "is being installed for the first time, it would probably be useful"
echo "to have the disk's hardware manual, the installation notes, and a"
echo "calculator handy."
echo "Before starting, it is important to know your hard disk's geometry"
echo "(i.e., number of cylinders, heads and sectors/track). If installing"
echo "${OPSYSTEM} on the same disk as another operating system, then the"
echo "two systems should use the same geometry. In particular, ${OPSYSTEM}'s"
echo "default geometry is inappropriate for MS-DOS. So in this case, the"
echo "DOS geometry should be used instead."
echo
echo "As with anything which modifies a hard drive's contents, this"
echo "program can cause SIGNIFICANT data loss, and we strongly recommend"
echo "making sure that the hard drive is backed up before going further with"
echo "the installation process."
echo "As with anything which modifies a hard drive's contents, this program"
echo "can cause SIGNIFICANT data loss. We strongly recommend making sure"
echo "that the hard drive is backed up before going further with the"
echo "installation process."
echo
echo -n "Proceed with installation? [y] "
read resp junk
@ -395,7 +396,7 @@ y*|Y*)
echo "Cool! Let's get to it..."
echo
echo "If a mistake is made along the way, don't bail out."
echo "At the end, you have the option to redo the configuration."
echo "At the end, you have the option of redoing the configuration."
echo "If you really must quit at some point, type <CTRL>+C and"
echo "enter \`halt' at the command prompt, \`#'."
;;
@ -490,6 +491,8 @@ echo -n "Disk label name (one word, please)? [${name:-mfr_model}] "
read resp junk
name=${resp:-${name:-mfr_model}}
echo
echo "${OPSYSTEM} should use the same hard disk geometry as used by other"
echo "operating systems on the hard disk."
echo -n "Number of bytes per disk sector? [${bytes_per_sect:-512}] "
read resp junk
bytes_per_sect=${resp:-${bytes_per_sect:-512}}