From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 7 14:21:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46A4737B502 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 14:21:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ct-hartford-hiper2042.javanet.com ([209.150.38.44] helo=[209.150.34.212]) by smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #2) id 13i1Pa-0007Yo-00; Sat, 07 Oct 2000 17:21:43 -0400 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200010072101.RAA19595@rac4.wam.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: James Howard From: media@ct1.nai.net Subject: Re: Partitioning question Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 17:21:43 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 5:01 PM -0400 10/07/00, James Howard wrote: > >I have this silly problem with paritioning. When I do a new installation >and go to format the new partitions, I am invariably told that the >partition cannot be located. As near as I can tell, I am the only person >this happens to. What am I screwing up to cause this? What is telling you he partition can't be located?? From stand/sysinstall you would first go into an "fdisk" type utility where you create the FreeBSD partion. Then you go into a disk labelling utility that creates the slices for /, /usr, /swap, etc., and create mount points for any other partitions (such as DOS). What are you seeing in FreeBSD's version of fdisk?? On a related note, if you have slices set up with an earlier version that supports bad block handling (eg. 3.4), a later version of stand/sysinstall does not support bad block handling (eg. 4.1) will not find them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message