From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 8 14:01:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17006 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 14:01:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt050n33.san.rr.com [204.210.31.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA16977; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 14:00:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA09820; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 14:00:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Message-ID: <352BE57E.CA28B255@san.rr.com> Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 14:00:46 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0325 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Konrad Heuer CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mysterious Extended DOS Partition References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Konrad Heuer wrote: > > I'm not sure whether this is the mailing list of choice to tell about the > problem I observed - but might be! Never cross-post to -questions and -hackers. Please follow up to -questions. > On a PC with 4 primary partitions (NTFS-OS/2 Boot Manager-FAT-FreeBSD) I > wanted to remove NT and to change its partition to an extended DOS > one (shame on me not to create a FreeBSD partition). I used FreeBSD's > fdisk to change the partition id to 5. The moral of your story is that if you want to create DOS partitions, use DOS' fdisk. Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message