Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 02:10:03 +1300 From: kit <kit@hypostasis.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: DP2 partition type issue was: DP2 keyboard fails in FDISK Message-ID: <20021203131003.GA88138@amethyst.hypostasis.com> In-Reply-To: <20021203095736.GA87715@amethyst.hypostasis.com> References: <20021203095736.GA87715@amethyst.hypostasis.com>
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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
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