Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 14:00:46 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> To: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mysterious Extended DOS Partition Message-ID: <352BE57E.CA28B255@san.rr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980408171134.2591A-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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Konrad Heuer wrote: > > I'm not sure whether this is the mailing list of choice to tell about the > problem I observed - but might be! Never cross-post to -questions and -hackers. Please follow up to -questions. > On a PC with 4 primary partitions (NTFS-OS/2 Boot Manager-FAT-FreeBSD) I > wanted to remove NT and to change its partition to an extended DOS > one (shame on me not to create a FreeBSD partition). I used FreeBSD's > fdisk to change the partition id to 5. The moral of your story is that if you want to create DOS partitions, use DOS' fdisk. Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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