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| author | Joerg Wunsch <joerg@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-11-19 19:51:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Joerg Wunsch <joerg@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-11-19 19:51:54 +0000 |
| commit | c50230f75f109530c1cca72f10957a3ea8cac2bd (patch) | |
| tree | 9c943b357921801b2558837a75285e0897433b0f | |
| parent | 1933d0fe22bf40ab0c535e544b37f1ee1ba287c3 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | FAQ/install.sgml | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/FAQ/install.sgml b/FAQ/install.sgml index 0c3e043c0f..6bb2ea766c 100644 --- a/FAQ/install.sgml +++ b/FAQ/install.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $Id: install.sgml,v 1.12 1998-10-30 23:15:03 wosch Exp $ --> +<!-- $Id: install.sgml,v 1.13 1998-11-19 19:51:54 joerg Exp $ --> <!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project --> <sect> @@ -370,10 +370,10 @@ round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 2.530/2.643/2.774/0.103 ms <p>If it <tt /is/ turned on (it's often supplied this way to get around certain limitations in MSDOS) and the disk capacity is more than 1GB, - use M cylinders, 63 heads (*not* 64), and 255 sectors per track, where + use M cylinders, 63 sectors per track (*not* 64), and 255 heads, where 'M' is the disk capacity in MB divided by 7.844238 (!). So our - example 2GB drive would have 261 cylinders, 63 heads and 255 sectors - per track. + example 2GB drive would have 261 cylinders, 63 sectors per track and + 255 heads. <p>If you are not sure about this, or FreeBSD fails to detect the geometry correctly during installation, the simplest way around |
