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Folks - please review these! I'm quite sleepy at the moment, and I'm sure that some of this could be worded better. I'd like to have at least a reasonable syntax pass over this before handing it off to the translation folks! Thanks! Feel free to commit any changes directly if it's any time in the next 8 hours, BTW. I won't mind since I'll be asleep!
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Select the drives you wish FreeBSD to be able to use.
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If you are going to actually install some portion of FreeBSD on a
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drive, then PLEASE BE VERY CERTAIN that the Geometry reported in the
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Partition Editor (see Installation Menu) is the correct one for your
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drive and controller combination!
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IDE drives often have a certain geometry set during the PC BIOS setup,
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or (in the case of larger IDE drives) have their geometry "remapped"
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by either the IDE controller or a special boot-sector translation
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utility (such as that by OnTrack Systems). In these cases, knowing
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the correct geometry gets even more complicated as it's not something
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you can easily tell by looking at the drive or the PC BIOS setup. The
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best way of determining your geometry in such situations is to boot
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DOS (from the hard disk, not a floppy!) and run the ``pfdisk'' utility
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provided in the tools/ subdirectory. It will report the geometry that
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DOS sees, which is generally the correct one.
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FreeBSD does its best to guess all of this automatically, of course,
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but it sometimes fails which is why it's a good idea to check it. The
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Partition Editor has a `(G)eometry' command that will allow you to
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change it as necessary.
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