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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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