From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 7 15:46: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E5C937B66C for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 15:46:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 66605 invoked by uid 100); 7 Oct 2000 22:45:59 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14815.42919.914131.394015@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 17:45:59 -0500 (CDT) To: media@ct1.nai.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: obtaining partition information?? In-Reply-To: <78803519@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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.