Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 13:01:26 -0400 From: media@ct1.nai.net To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: obtaining partition information?? Message-ID: <v03130302b6061e99ae94@[209.150.34.212]> In-Reply-To: <14815.42919.914131.394015@guru.mired.org> References: <78803519@toto.iv>
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At 5:45 PM -0500 10/07/00, Mike Meyer wrote: > >> FDISK under DOS shows the total FreeBSD partition (but it can't show the >> slices for /, /usr, /swap), but the FreeBSD utility under >> stand/sysinstall only shows the Primary DOS partition. > >Who said anything about /stand/sysinstall? I did. It was in my original post :) >Try the /sbin/fdisk - it >prints out the same partition table that DOS does. If it doesn't, >something is seriously screwed up. Thanx :) I didn't know about that. Anyway, after discovering the debugging options in the installer and making them verbose, I have confirmed that is related to the removal of bad144 in 4.1. Therefore, the fdisk in 4.1 won't work with my 3.4 slices. >Well, if you're using the one in /stand/sysinstall, and that doesn't >see the freebsd partition, then it isn't going to work. Try the one in >/sbin. Since the one in stand/sysinstall doesn't work, I can't use the upgrade feature in stand/sysinstall. >> I'm led to believe the 4.1 installer does not work with the 3.4 >> partitioning. This leads me to ask another question, if I upgrade to 4.1 >> from source (without using stand/sysinstall) will the 4.1 filesystem work >> on my disk?? > >It ought to. I went from 3.4 to -current that way. Hmmm . . I think I need to find out exactly when bad144 was removed, and not upgrade past that point. Unfortunately, my hard drive has bad blocks according to FreeBSD (they were undetectable using DOS), so until I buy a new hard drive, I think I need to keep bad144. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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