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**Geffy** · July 18th, 2007

You probably want to look at the handbook sections on GEOM or Vinum

**X-Istence** · July 18th, 2007

Originally Posted by Carpo

just alot of the reviews and various other webpages/forums kept refering to that partitular bug, is there a way to get the bootonly iso onto a usb key so you can install it from there ?

The BIOS in most computers does not return the actual geometry of the hard drive (sectors, heads and that other one), so FreeBSD just guesses, the guess is fine to use, the only problem could result from moving the drive from one machine to another because it may report another geometry and it may be wrong.

However, you can set it yourself, or trust the guess it makes. I personally have installed many FreeBSD's and moved the hard drives around with no problems what so ever, but your milage may vary. There is nothing to worry about if you are just going to use it in one computer.

Also, just to clarify it is not a bug, rather FreeBSD is one of the few OS's that actually lets you know ahead of time it is getting bad information from the BIOS, whereas Linux and others don't and just go ahead with what they get from the BIOS, or if those figures are way out of wack, with what they guess it is.

**Dark Atheist** · July 18th, 2007

yes its only going to be used on the one pc - thanks, currently reading the info on the docs cd, well documented easy to follow and understand, some things look scarey but im guessing they arent once you have done them a few times

**X-Istence** · July 18th, 2007

Originally Posted by Carpo

yes its only going to be used on the one pc - thanks, currently reading the info on the docs cd, well documented easy to follow and understand, some things look scarey but im guessing they arent once you have done them a few times

http://freebsd.org/handbook/

Is a step by step guide to installing a well as maintaining your FreeBSD install.

**Dark Atheist** · July 18th, 2007

6.2-RELEASE-i386-docs.iso - seeing as i downloaded all the isos i just mounted that one on laptop and am reading through bit by bit

**Geffy** · July 18th, 2007

Originally Posted by Carpo

well documented easy to follow and understand

Thats the best thing about the BSD family of OS's the documentation is fantastic, in my experience the system manpages are about 100x better than the ones available in the Linux distributions.

**Dark Atheist** · July 18th, 2007

yes they are well written, my eyes started to hurt with all the reading and trying to understand the differences between freebsd and linux - so i stoped to watch 300 and zodiac

- should i require assitance im guessing i will have to start a thread in linux if i need some questions answered ?

**Geffy** · July 19th, 2007

would be a good start

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Geffy OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: March 2002 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,805 Reputation: 1490 Power: 216	Re: windows server 2003 standard or slackware linux as server You probably want to look at the handbook sections on GEOM or Vinum  • blog • tumblog • lastfm • flickr • #rubyonrails • @twitter "I could be replaced with a very small shell script"

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X-Istence * Joined: December 2001 Location: USA Posts: 6,496 Reputation: 2808 Power: 220	Re: windows server 2003 standard or slackware linux as server Originally Posted by Carpo just alot of the reviews and various other webpages/forums kept refering to that partitular bug, is there a way to get the bootonly iso onto a usb key so you can install it from there ? The BIOS in most computers does not return the actual geometry of the hard drive (sectors, heads and that other one), so FreeBSD just guesses, the guess is fine to use, the only problem could result from moving the drive from one machine to another because it may report another geometry and it may be wrong. However, you can set it yourself, or trust the guess it makes. I personally have installed many FreeBSD's and moved the hard drives around with no problems what so ever, but your milage may vary. There is nothing to worry about if you are just going to use it in one computer. Also, just to clarify it is not a bug, rather FreeBSD is one of the few OS's that actually lets you know ahead of time it is getting bad information from the BIOS, whereas Linux and others don't and just go ahead with what they get from the BIOS, or if those figures are way out of wack, with what they guess it is. An engineers technical notebook

July 18th, 2007	Top \| #23
Dark Atheist OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: April 2003 Location: In The Void Posts: 6,372 Blog Entries: 9 Reputation: 1877 Power: 192	Re: windows server 2003 standard or slackware linux as server yes its only going to be used on the one pc - thanks, currently reading the info on the docs cd, well documented easy to follow and understand, some things look scarey but im guessing they arent once you have done them a few times

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X-Istence * Joined: December 2001 Location: USA Posts: 6,496 Reputation: 2808 Power: 220	Re: windows server 2003 standard or slackware linux as server Originally Posted by Carpo yes its only going to be used on the one pc - thanks, currently reading the info on the docs cd, well documented easy to follow and understand, some things look scarey but im guessing they arent once you have done them a few times http://freebsd.org/handbook/ Is a step by step guide to installing a well as maintaining your FreeBSD install. An engineers technical notebook

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Dark Atheist OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: April 2003 Location: In The Void Posts: 6,372 Blog Entries: 9 Reputation: 1877 Power: 192	Re: windows server 2003 standard or slackware linux as server 6.2-RELEASE-i386-docs.iso - seeing as i downloaded all the isos i just mounted that one on laptop and am reading through bit by bit

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July 18th, 2007	Top \| #26
Geffy OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: March 2002 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,805 Reputation: 1490 Power: 216	Re: windows server 2003 standard or slackware linux as server Originally Posted by Carpo well documented easy to follow and understand Thats the best thing about the BSD family of OS's the documentation is fantastic, in my experience the system manpages are about 100x better than the ones available in the Linux distributions.  • blog • tumblog • lastfm • flickr • #rubyonrails • @twitter "I could be replaced with a very small shell script"

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Dark Atheist OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: April 2003 Location: In The Void Posts: 6,372 Blog Entries: 9 Reputation: 1877 Power: 192	Re: windows server 2003 standard or slackware linux as server yes they are well written, my eyes started to hurt with all the reading and trying to understand the differences between freebsd and linux - so i stoped to watch 300 and zodiac - should i require assitance im guessing i will have to start a thread in linux if i need some questions answered ?

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Geffy OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: March 2002 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,805 Reputation: 1490 Power: 216	Re: windows server 2003 standard or slackware linux as server would be a good start  • blog • tumblog • lastfm • flickr • #rubyonrails • @twitter "I could be replaced with a very small shell script"

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