From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 13 11:54:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA13564 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:54:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA13559 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:54:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA02334; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:53:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:53:43 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Marcos Viterbo cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: MS-DOS partition to FreeBSD slice In-Reply-To: <34635AA6.861A3775@vecom.com.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Marcos Viterbo wrote: > I have a 340MB MS-DOS extended partition in my second IDE HD (wd1s5) and > it is no longer necessary. I would like to change its system for 165 > (I'm running a dual boot machine with windows95 and FreeBSD 2.2.2). How > should I proceed? Just delete the partition using DOS fdisk then set it up as a separate slice. I don't have this specifically documented yet, but you can use http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat as a guide. I'd suggest using sysinstall to help you. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major