From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 11 14:56:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA09875 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:56:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (root@jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA09776 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:56:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul6.u.washington.edu (root@saul6.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.1]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id OAA45052; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:55:47 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul6.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id OAA04393; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:55:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:45:30 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: home cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdisk In-Reply-To: <35804E44.86524256@rangenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, home wrote: >Hello, >I am new to FreeBSD, but have had Linux installments on my box before, >namely RedHat. I heard about FreeBSD, and wanted to give it a spin. To >get to the point, when I try to allocate space for the installation, it >reports some wierd info. Even after I move the partitions around with >fdisk in dos, or Linux, nothing changes in the FreeBSD one. Is there >something I am doing wrong? Please help! Have you created a disk label using 'disklabel' or a new filesystem using 'newfs'? Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ | 206-633-5994 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message