From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 19 5:21:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from einsurance.de (mail.einsurance.de [62.128.31.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3F3637B400 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 05:21:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.5] (HELO cheyenne) by einsurance.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.3.1) with SMTP id 661629; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:19:32 +0100 From: Stephan Beal Organization: einsurance.de Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:12:51 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Per Tore Larsen References: <25879E6A7E74D411B9370050043B7F3E09F8C2@fernonorden.com> In-Reply-To: <25879E6A7E74D411B9370050043B7F3E09F8C2@fernonorden.com> Subject: Re: getting rid of FreeBSD partitions? Cc: Kent Stewart , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01011914125107.17675@cheyenne> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG PeTe, Thanks very much, but I've found the solution. Kent Stewart pointed me to= the=20 WRITE option in fdisk. Write works, but is not in the list of commands in= =20 sysinstall's fdisk, so I never would have found it. > You've tried to start the FreeBSD install from CD and removing all slic= es? > 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=20 don't have any correct slices (and thus won't write the partition table).= =20 Thus if you don't know the W option is there, you can't ever nuke the tab= les=20 and then abort install process. Running fdisk from the rescue shell didn'= t do=20 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=20 > have you learned from this experience?? Nothing. Yes, Linux would prob= ably=20 > be you flavor. It wasn't my intention to blame FreeBSD, or start a flame war (yes, I see= how=20 it came across that way, and I appologize). it turns out that the problem= =20 seems to be more a fault of a missing (visibly, anyway) option in fdisk. = I=20 would suggest to any BSD installation maintainers that they make the Writ= e=20 option visible in the fdisk setup. Again, thanks VERY VERY much to those of you who pointed me in the right=20 direction. ----- Stephan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message