From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 11 19:14:41 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 B05B216A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:14:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay03.pair.com (relay03.pair.com [209.68.5.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2702643D5D for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:14:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alejandro@varnet.biz) Received: (qmail 56836 invoked from network); 11 Mar 2005 19:14:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ale.varnet.bsd) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 11 Mar 2005 19:14:39 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 200.115.214.28 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:15:22 -0300 From: Alejandro Pulver To: "Freek Nossin" Message-ID: <20050311161522.38f6d03a@ale.varnet.bsd> In-Reply-To: <20050311165759.30F048011F4F@smtp-out3.tiscali.nl> References: <20050311165759.30F048011F4F@smtp-out3.tiscali.nl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12b (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 19:14:41 -0000 On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:58:10 +0100 "Freek Nossin" wrote: > 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? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hello, Try using 'fdisk' directly (man 8 fdisk) and see the complete error messages. For example, to delete the second slice (check the numbering with 'fdisk -s') save the following in a file and then run 'fdisk -f ' (but first try the test mode with the -t flag to see if it works as expected): p 2 0 0 0 Best Regards, Ale P.S.: what is the output of 'fdisk -s'?