From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 31 13: 0:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web5503.mail.yahoo.com (web5503.mail.yahoo.com [216.115.106.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F5D437B422 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 13:00:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adamnealis@yahoo.co.uk) Message-ID: <20010531200025.20857.qmail@web5503.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [195.92.67.72] by web5503.mail.yahoo.com; Thu, 31 May 2001 21:00:25 BST Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 21:00:25 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Adam=20Nealis?= Subject: Is it safe to use fdisk to do this...? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Using the FDISK Partition Editor via /stand/sysinstall, I see this Offset Size(MB) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 0 62 - 6 unused 0 63 8032 16450559 da0s3 4 extended 5 16450560 1027 18555074 da0s1 2 fat 12 * 18555075 4102 26957069 - 6 unused 0 26957070 21838 71682029 da0s2 3 freebsd 165 C 71682030 2 71687368 - 6 unused 0 The line I've marked * has a copy of Linux installed on it. Is it safe to use T and set the type to 131 (Linux ext2fs), so it looks like this 18555075 8401995 26957069 da0s4 1 ext2fs 131 then write the changes and on the next screen install the FreeBSD Boot Manager? I want to mount it, you see. Adam. ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message