From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 3 22:19:43 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id WAA15321 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 22:19:43 -0800 Received: from vmbb.cts.com (vmbb.cts.com [192.188.72.18]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA15315 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 22:19:42 -0800 Received: from io.cts.com by vmbb.cts.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #9) id m0rPP3z-0000hTC; Tue, 3 Jan 95 22:19 PST Received: (from root@localhost) by io.cts.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id WAA08252 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 22:14:45 -0800 From: Morgan Davis Message-Id: <199501040614.WAA08252@io.cts.com> Subject: FreeBSD (fwd) To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 22:14:45 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1391 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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: > 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