Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 08:06:02 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, jehamby@lightside.com Subject: Re: Adding/deleting partitions should be Linux-like Message-ID: <199509181506.IAA12492@aslan.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Sep 1995 19:12:52 %2B1000." <199509180912.TAA16027@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>In order to make room for 2.1.0-STABLE source on my hard drive, I got rid >>of a 400 meg DOS partition and tried to add it as /usr/src to FreeBSD. I >>had nothing but trouble, since fdisk and disklabel are RIDICULOUSLY >>difficult to use. No matter how much I RTFM, I just could not figure out >>how to change partition 1 from MSDOS to FreeBSD, > > fdisk -u /dev/rwd0 # for IDE drive 0 > # Hit return to accept the default for everything except: > # - answer `y' to the question about changing the partition > # (slice) you want to change. > # - supply a new value of 165 for the `sysid' of that slice. > # - answer `y' to the question about the entry being correct. > # - answer `y' to the question about writing the new changes. Can you "fix" fdisk -i? I don't know enough about what the proper offsets should be, but it certainly does the wrong thing for people now. >Bruce -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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