From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 18 09:30:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA21750 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 09:30:47 -0700 Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA21740 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 09:30:45 -0700 Received: from gemini ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <16559(4)>; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 09:26:26 PDT Received: from gnu.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07244; Mon, 18 Sep 95 12:26:16 EDT Received: by gnu.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28559; Mon, 18 Sep 95 12:26:15 EDT Message-Id: <9509181626.AA28559@gnu.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: Bruce Evans , 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 08:06:02 PDT." <199509181506.IAA12492@aslan.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 09:26:12 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" 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, > > > I just installed 2.05 on a system (I already had a 2.0 system there, I wanted to use another disk on the system with a FreeBSD slice...) Turns out the partitioning information gives everything in sectors, I find megabytes useful, I ended up using the linux fdisk to make my freebsd partition... marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom