From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 3 19:19: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shell.wetworks.org (shell.wetworks.org [63.160.175.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 79C2D37C2B8 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 19:18:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abc@shell.wetworks.org) Received: (qmail 54646 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Jul 2000 02:18:58 -0000 Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 22:18:58 -0400 From: Alan Clegg To: "Kim J. Brand" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install fails on 10.2 GB drive using 4.0 Message-ID: <20000703221858.I42727@shell.wetworks.org> References: <3.0.1.32.20000703093625.00747ce8@192.168.0.1> <3.0.1.32.20000703201905.007060e0@192.168.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20000703201905.007060e0@192.168.0.1>; from kim@simple-mail.com on Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 08:19:05PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG An SMTP stream claimed that Kim J. Brand muttered: > i fdisked/formatted the drive with a spare WIN98 Boot Disk, then i deleted > the partition using the 4.0 partition utility, and it WORKED!! I would have been interested to know if booting from a recovery disk and then doing a 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/_whatever_ count=10' would have done the same thing. AlanC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message