Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 09:26:12 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, hackers@freebsd.org, jehamby@lightside.com Subject: Re: Adding/deleting partitions should be Linux-like Message-ID: <9509181626.AA28559@gnu.mc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Sep 1995 08:06:02 PDT." <199509181506.IAA12492@aslan.cdrom.com>
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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, > > > I just installed 2.05 on a system (I already had a 2.0 system there, I wanted to use another disk on the system with a FreeBSD slice...) Turns out the partitioning information gives everything in sectors, I find megabytes useful, I ended up using the linux fdisk to make my freebsd partition... marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom
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