From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 13 8: 7:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out0.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (out0.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.1.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7717D37B416 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:07:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell.core.com (shell.core.com [169.207.1.89]) by out0.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (8.11.4/8.11.4/1.7) with ESMTP id g2DG8Rg58455 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:08:27 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (raiden@localhost) by shell.core.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/1.3) with ESMTP id g2DG7kq16465 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:07:46 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:07:46 -0600 (CST) From: Steven Lake X-X-Sender: raiden@shell.core.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Killing old 2k partitions... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok, I'm probubly doing something wrong, but I've got an old Windows 2000 machine we're blowing away and reinstalling with FreeBSD 4.5 on a fresh install with a clean hard drive. Now here's the issue. Since the machine was originally installed the partition was upgraded to a dynamic disk. I tried regular windows Fdisk, but it won't see it right, and I can't seem to get the Fdisk util for FBSD to blow away the old partitions correctly and make a proper 165 partition. Any ideas? The other machine we upgraded from 2k to Fbsd didn't have it's disks converted to dynamic and they came over fine. We haven't got anything mission critical on these boxes. So any suggestions that you have are welcome. We won't be risking loosing any data since they're now just extra machines. They're both just old P2-300's we pulled out of service when we switched accounting server software. So we're just going to be using them as backup DNS servers for now till they completely give up the ghost. :) So in short, we blow em up, I'm not gonna cry. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message