Re: need help to geometry

[Andrew Clausen]

"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