Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:12:51 +0100 From: Stephan Beal <stephan.beal@einsurance.de> To: Per Tore Larsen <per.tore.larsen@fernonorden.com> Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting rid of FreeBSD partitions? Message-ID: <01011914125107.17675@cheyenne> In-Reply-To: <25879E6A7E74D411B9370050043B7F3E09F8C2@fernonorden.com> References: <25879E6A7E74D411B9370050043B7F3E09F8C2@fernonorden.com>
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PeTe, Thanks very much, but I've found the solution. Kent Stewart pointed me to the WRITE option in fdisk. Write works, but is not in the list of commands in sysinstall's fdisk, so I never would have found it. > You've tried to start the FreeBSD install from CD and removing all slices? > Create on slice with DOS compatibilty, go through installation prosses > until it completes writing the disk info then reboot.. You should be > allright. That was the problem, basically, the installation process won't continue if I don't have any correct slices (and thus won't write the partition table). Thus if you don't know the W option is there, you can't ever nuke the tables and then abort install process. Running fdisk from the rescue shell didn't do it for me - it simply bitched about the partitions and exits. > Don't think that the problem is with FreeBSD, sticky fingers yes, but > blaming FreeBSD as you do are not only provocative but also childish. What > have you learned from this experience?? Nothing. Yes, Linux would probably > be you flavor. It wasn't my intention to blame FreeBSD, or start a flame war (yes, I see how it came across that way, and I appologize). it turns out that the problem seems to be more a fault of a missing (visibly, anyway) option in fdisk. I would suggest to any BSD installation maintainers that they make the Write option visible in the fdisk setup. Again, thanks VERY VERY much to those of you who pointed me in the right direction. ----- Stephan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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