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Date:      Sat, 7 Oct 2000 17:45:59 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        media@ct1.nai.net
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: obtaining partition information??
Message-ID:  <14815.42919.914131.394015@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <78803519@toto.iv>

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media@ct1.nai.net writes:
> At 3:54 AM -0500 10/07/00, Mike Meyer wrote:
> >fdisk will list the slices.
> FDISK under DOS shows the total FreeBSD partition (but it can't show the
> slices for /, /usr, /swap), but the FreeBSD utility under stand/sysinstall
> only shows the Primary DOS partition.

Who said anything about /stand/sysinstall? Try the /sbin/fdisk - it
prints out the same partition table that DOS does. If it doesn't,
something is seriously screwed up.

> >disklabel will show you the partitions in a slice.
> It doesn't.  All it shows is the DOS partition.

Well, if you're using the one in /stand/sysinstall, and that doesn't
see the freebsd partition, then it isn't going to work. Try the one in
/sbin.

> I'm led to believe the 4.1 installer does not work with the 3.4
> partitioning.  This leads me to ask another question, if I upgrade to 4.1
> from source (without using stand/sysinstall) will the 4.1 filesystem work
> on  my disk??

It ought to. I went from 3.4 to -current that way.

	<mike


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