Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:33:05 +0100 From: Stephan Beal <stephan.beal@einsurance.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: getting rid of FreeBSD partitions? Message-ID: <01011913330503.17675@cheyenne>
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All, Please excuse me if this is not the correct list to post this, but FreeBS= D=20 seems to have a rather limited set of lists, and this one sounded close: I installed FreeBSD 4.1 last week. I don't at all like it (reminds me too= =20 much of Solaris), and I'm trying desparately to replace it with Something= =20 Else. The problem is that I can't remove the BSD partitions. I have tried= =20 Win98's fdisk, Linux's fdisk, and even FreeBSD's fdisk (using the=20 installation app), and I simply cannot make these damned BSD partitions g= o=20 away. I suspect that using BSD's fdisk via the installer would work if it= =20 would allow me to commit the changes without having any BSD partitions=20 installed. Running fdisk from the "holographic rescue shell" simply doesn= 't=20 do it - they reappear on the next boot. Linux's fdisk segfaults when I try, and Win98's says it deletes them, onl= y to=20 have them show up again on the next reboot. I've got a 20GB IBM drive, which is my primary concern, plus an old 4GB=20 secondary drive with the same problem (plus FreeBSD will only acknowledge= 2GB=20 of it, but that's beside the point). The drives are both useless to me un= til=20 I can get the BSD partitions off of them. I've seen this problem before, but only with NT-fdisked drives, and even=20 then, Linux's fdisk would fix the problem. How the hey do I get rid of BSD paritions? I've tried changing drive mode= s=20 (LBA, Normal, etc.), different fdisk apps... everything I have available. (PS: May I please ask that you respond directly to me, as I have no inten= tion=20 of subscribing to this list, as I don't intend on continuing to use FreeB= SD.) Thanks very much in advance, ----- Stephan Beal Generic Universal Computer Guy stephan.beal@einsurance.de http://www.einsurance.de Office: +49 (89) 53 07 38 32 (Don't bother. I never answer it.) Handy: +49 (179) 2119767 (I rarely answer that one, too.) "People don't live or die, people just grow." -- Bob Dylan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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