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From: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>
To: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>, Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net>
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Subject: RE: need help setting up a new partition
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--- Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> wrote:

> 
> --- Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On 09-Feb-2006 Peter wrote:
> > > Hi everybody,
> > > 
> > > I have a dual-boot arrangement with Win2k (on the first and second
> > > partition) and FreeBSD 5.4 (on the third partition).  I am willing
> to
> > > sacrifice the second partition and give it over to FreeBSD as I am
> > > lacking space there.  I'm just not sure how to proceed.
> > 
> > Use sysinstall to delete the partition and then re-create it as ufs.
> 
> I tried your suggestion but I cannot write to disk.  I posted a
> screenshot
> here:
> 
> http://metawire.org/~petermatulis/ad0_error.png
> 
> I tried booting into single-user mode but still no dice.

Actually I changed a sysctl setting (sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16) and I
was able to delete/create the partition.  Now I am stuck trying to create
the slices.  It keeps telling me the mount points do not exist when they
do.  I rebooted after creating them.


	

	
		
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