Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 22:18:58 -0400 From: Alan Clegg <abc@shell.wetworks.org> To: "Kim J. Brand" <kim@simple-mail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install fails on 10.2 GB drive using 4.0 Message-ID: <20000703221858.I42727@shell.wetworks.org> 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 References: <3.0.1.32.20000703093625.00747ce8@192.168.0.1> <NEBBIJCLELPGBFNNJOFHAELHCDAA.jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> <3.0.1.32.20000703201905.007060e0@192.168.0.1>
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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
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