From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 18 08:06:30 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA18733 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 08:06:30 -0700 Received: from aslan.cdrom.com (aslan.cdrom.com [192.216.223.142]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA18728 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 08:06:29 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA12492; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 08:06:02 -0700 Message-Id: <199509181506.IAA12492@aslan.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: aslan.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: Bruce Evans cc: hackers@freebsd.org, jehamby@lightside.com Subject: Re: Adding/deleting partitions should be Linux-like In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 18 Sep 1995 19:12:52 +1000." <199509180912.TAA16027@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 08:06:02 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>In order to make room for 2.1.0-STABLE source on my hard drive, I got rid >>of a 400 meg DOS partition and tried to add it as /usr/src to FreeBSD. I >>had nothing but trouble, since fdisk and disklabel are RIDICULOUSLY >>difficult to use. No matter how much I RTFM, I just could not figure out >>how to change partition 1 from MSDOS to FreeBSD, > > fdisk -u /dev/rwd0 # for IDE drive 0 > # Hit return to accept the default for everything except: > # - answer `y' to the question about changing the partition > # (slice) you want to change. > # - supply a new value of 165 for the `sysid' of that slice. > # - answer `y' to the question about the entry being correct. > # - answer `y' to the question about writing the new changes. Can you "fix" fdisk -i? I don't know enough about what the proper offsets should be, but it certainly does the wrong thing for people now. >Bruce -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================