Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:12:51 +0100 From: Stephan Beal <stephan.beal@einsurance.de> To: Per Tore Larsen <per.tore.larsen@fernonorden.com> Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting rid of FreeBSD partitions? Message-ID: <01011914125107.17675@cheyenne> In-Reply-To: <25879E6A7E74D411B9370050043B7F3E09F8C2@fernonorden.com> References: <25879E6A7E74D411B9370050043B7F3E09F8C2@fernonorden.com>
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PeTe, Thanks very much, but I've found the solution. Kent Stewart pointed me to= the=20 WRITE option in fdisk. Write works, but is not in the list of commands in= =20 sysinstall's fdisk, so I never would have found it. > You've tried to start the FreeBSD install from CD and removing all slic= es? > Create on slice with DOS compatibilty, go through installation prosses > until it completes writing the disk info then reboot.. You should be > allright. That was the problem, basically, the installation process won't continue = if I=20 don't have any correct slices (and thus won't write the partition table).= =20 Thus if you don't know the W option is there, you can't ever nuke the tab= les=20 and then abort install process. Running fdisk from the rescue shell didn'= t do=20 it for me - it simply bitched about the partitions and exits. > Don't think that the problem is with FreeBSD, sticky fingers yes, but > blaming FreeBSD as you do are not only provocative but also childish. = What=20 > have you learned from this experience?? Nothing. Yes, Linux would prob= ably=20 > be you flavor. It wasn't my intention to blame FreeBSD, or start a flame war (yes, I see= how=20 it came across that way, and I appologize). it turns out that the problem= =20 seems to be more a fault of a missing (visibly, anyway) option in fdisk. = I=20 would suggest to any BSD installation maintainers that they make the Writ= e=20 option visible in the fdisk setup. Again, thanks VERY VERY much to those of you who pointed me in the right=20 direction. ----- Stephan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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