Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 22:14:45 -0800 (PST) From: Morgan Davis <root@io.cts.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD (fwd) Message-ID: <199501040614.WAA08252@io.cts.com>
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Just passing this along. Are there any known problems with the newer fdisk? System Administrator writes: > From root@tachyon.cts.com Tue Jan 3 22:00:47 1995 > Message-Id: <m0rPOtj-0005rOC@tachyon.cts.com> > From: root@tachyon.cts.com (System Administrator) > Subject: FreeBSD > To: mdavis@io.cts.com > Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 22:08:38 -0800 (PST) > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] > Content-Type: text > Content-Length: 919 > > Hi Morgan.. I decided to start putting FreeBSD on tachyon.. I got the new > boot disks as you suggested. They say 'FreeBSD 2.0 RELEASE' when it > loads and shows the installer. Well, I've been doing this for 2+ hours > (based on the number of TV shows that have come and gone) .. and am STILL > working on partitioning the disk. FreeBSD's 'fdisk' refuses to create > any partitions on any of my disks of a size larger than 1MB (I have a 345Mb, > a 1012Mb, a 40Mb (syquest), and a 120Mb disk in tachyon -- SCSI). Soo.. > we're not off to a good start. I had to boot linux and use it's fdisk to > create the partitions and label them as FreeBSD.. now I am about to reboot > FreeBSD and see if I can 'label' them as needed. > > Anyways, the Prerelease 2.0 installer Fdisk'ed my disks with no problem.. > one would think the newer version would do it better.. lets hope this is > the only problem with it... HmmmMMMM.. > > C'ya later! > -Jim
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