From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 11 16:58:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D3EE16A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:58:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-out3.tiscali.nl (smtp-out3.tiscali.nl [195.241.79.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D257643D41 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:58:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freeknossin@tiscali.nl) Received: from edsger (195-241-9-180-mx.xdsl.tiscali.nl [195.241.9.180]) by smtp-out3.tiscali.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30F048011F4F for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:57:59 +0100 (CET) From: "Freek Nossin" To: Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:58:10 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 Thread-Index: AcUmW4F+Ex4a5t/tRwaF+M0fel/t1g== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 Message-Id: <20050311165759.30F048011F4F@smtp-out3.tiscali.nl> Subject: format slice X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:58:03 -0000 Hello, I have a freebsd installation on a disk with two slices. One of them has the current freebsd install, the other has a win2k installation. I want to convert the win2k slice to a freebsd slice (by deleting the old one and add a new one). I followed the handbook but when I try to delete the win2k slice, and want to write the changes to the disk, sysinstall returns "a disk error". The steps I took were simple: - run sysinstall en select fdisk - choose delete on the NTFS slice - Write changes Then sysinstall complains that it cannot do that (no specific information on the cause of the error is displayed). Does anyone know what can be wrong and how can I solve this?