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Re: need help to geometry
From: |
Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: need help to geometry |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Apr 2001 22:13:49 +1000 |
"Meyer, Heinrich" wrote:
> Using GNU-PARTED vers. 1.2.11 (created with rawrite) worked fine at the
> beginning.
> Then in a second step (after removing and new creating partitions) I got the
> message:
> "system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is 753/255/63"
> and all commands did not work any longer.
I recommend you use 1.4.x. It is much better at dealing with geometry.
> At the beginning during the first step the geometry was "4865/255/63" (ok
> for a 40GB disk ST340823A with LBA).
> How can I tell the correct geometry to the program? What happened?
You can check in your BIOS configuration. (Usually, you hit DEL while
your BIOS is doing it's memory check rubbish)
> Does this version not have the option for changing the language to German?
Yeah, the boot disks don't have room for Native Language Support :-(
We should try and change this... (amongst other things) Kent: any ideas?
Andrew Clausen