From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 3 5: 6:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E7F837B401 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 05:06:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta202-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta202-rme.xtra.co.nz [210.86.15.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09DB543EBE for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 05:06:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kit@hypostasis.com) Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz ([210.86.15.143]) by mta202-rme.xtra.co.nz with ESMTP id <20021203130607.QRAZ2889.mta202-rme.xtra.co.nz@mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz> for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 02:06:07 +1300 Received: from amethyst.hypostasis.com ([219.88.78.205]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz with ESMTP id <20021203130607.QSGE688.mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz@amethyst.hypostasis.com> for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 02:06:07 +1300 Received: from amethyst.hypostasis.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amethyst.hypostasis.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB3DA4Tm088170 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 02:10:05 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from kit@amethyst.hypostasis.com) Received: (from kit@localhost) by amethyst.hypostasis.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gB3DA31D088169 for current@freebsd.org; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 02:10:03 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 02:10:03 +1300 From: kit To: current@freebsd.org Subject: DP2 partition type issue was: DP2 keyboard fails in FDISK Message-ID: <20021203131003.GA88138@amethyst.hypostasis.com> References: <20021203095736.GA87715@amethyst.hypostasis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021203095736.GA87715@amethyst.hypostasis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:57:36PM +1300, kit wrote: > Hello people > > Having decided to play with DP2 and downloaded the iso's I have an odd > install issue. > > sysinstall loads fine and in running hte standard install I get to > the disk partioning. However FDISK appears to remain unresponsive to > the keyboard > ALT-F2 works fine (and the power button gives me th option of restarting > sysinstall or aborting - impressive) but the actual process of > deleting the current w2k partion simply has no response. > > Machine is an IBM thinkpad A20m with a british keyboard and 12Gb disk > and 256Mb memory, the disk is partioned as 4 Gb NTFS and 8 extended FAT > > the behaviour is the same also from the custome install FDISK menu. > > Interestingly the arrow keys do move between the existing partions > some of the time but not once either A or D is selected. > > OK I maust have missed something but some of the functions did work OK and I could change type so long as I didn't try to delete the existing partions first. By changing the type to 167 (FreeBSD) I was able to delete them and move on. The geometry also needed to be changed from 24944/15/63 to 1559/240/63 which is what both w2k and 4.5-RELEASE reported --kit -- whois -h whois.gandi.net KM78-GANDI To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message