Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 22:05:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" <metcalf@imagine.com> Cc: FreeBSD questions <questions@freebsd.org>, Jeff at work <Jeffrey_M._Metcalf@ccmail.bms.com> Subject: Re: Installation probs and fdisk/pfdisk Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960806220408.224N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <1372755071-85075705@hfdmail1.imagine.com>
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On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Jeffrey M. Metcalf wrote: > I was recently helping a friend of mine install FreeBSD on his system > and we ran into a problem partitioning with fdisk. We partitioned the > hard drive too small at first and decided that we wanted a bigger > partition. Unfortunately, fdisk would no longer recognize the full > capacity of the hard drive for partitioning and so we weren't able to > restore the minimum size of the first partition to its original size. Odd. Did you delete the FreeBSD slice first? > We were brain damaged and forgot to make a backup of the partition table > before we hit it with fdisk. Doh! > We have an EIDE hard drive and are hoping that we can use the DOS > utility pfdisk from the Walnut Creek CDROM or the FreeBSD fdisk > (preferably pfdisk) to force the partition table back into shape. Nope. Was the partition table completely damaged? > We don't know the native geometry of the hard drive, since the geometry > that the BIOS reports and the geometry that FreeBSD's bootstrap reports > can sometimes be confusingly different. To get to the point, which > geometry should we feed to pfdisk or FreeBSD's fdisk to fix things up? I guess I need to know what is broke. What about DOS's fdisk? Use that if at all possible. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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