Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 00:06:24 +0100 (MET) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE> To: patrick@cre8tivegroup.com (Patrick Gardella) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slices and partitions Message-ID: <199710312306.AAA17348@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.971031155451.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> from Patrick Gardella at "Oct 31, 97 03:47:49 pm"
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> Help me to make sure I got this right! > > I've got two IDE hard drives > > wd0 is all Windoze 95 > wd1s1 is msdos formatted > wd1s2 is freebsd > > I'd like to format wd1s1 to be freebsd. I've used the tutorial on this. > > >From what I understand, the booteasy/something looks in the first FreeBSD slice > to contain the kernel. So I can't have the two slices on the same drive, with > the first one not being /, right? Right, the bootblocks don't support slices and try to load the kernel from the first FreeBSD slice on the disk. How about deleting wd1s1 and wd1s2 and reinstalling FreeBSD on a new wd1s1 slice taking all the space of wd1? If you are adventurous minded, you might want to switch the slices with the fdisk(8) utility, i. e. edit the boundaries of the first slice to match those of the second one and vice versa. Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, reboot and see what happens :-) Wolfgang
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