Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 00:20:49 -0500 (EST) From: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> To: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>, Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: need help setting up a new partition Message-ID: <20060209052049.10591.qmail@web60011.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060209044354.30052.qmail@web60019.mail.yahoo.com>
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--- Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> wrote: > > --- Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> wrote: > > > > > On 09-Feb-2006 Peter wrote: > > > Hi everybody, > > > > > > I have a dual-boot arrangement with Win2k (on the first and second > > > partition) and FreeBSD 5.4 (on the third partition). I am willing > to > > > sacrifice the second partition and give it over to FreeBSD as I am > > > lacking space there. I'm just not sure how to proceed. > > > > Use sysinstall to delete the partition and then re-create it as ufs. > > I tried your suggestion but I cannot write to disk. I posted a > screenshot > here: > > http://metawire.org/~petermatulis/ad0_error.png > > I tried booting into single-user mode but still no dice. Actually I changed a sysctl setting (sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16) and I was able to delete/create the partition. Now I am stuck trying to create the slices. It keeps telling me the mount points do not exist when they do. I rebooted after creating them. __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca
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