From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 29 13:13:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3F4D37BD1D for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 13:13:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA60139; Mon, 29 May 2000 16:13:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 16:13:39 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Al Goldstein Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dos partition Message-ID: <20000529161339.J58958@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from al@sense-gold-134.oz.net on Mon, May 29, 2000 at 11:09:29AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 11:09:29AM -0700, Al Goldstein wrote: > Help please. > > My dos partition is not accessible by dos (C: not available from A:) > or mountable by freebsd. OK. > The partition table looks like this > DISK GEOMETRY 13328 cyl/15 heads/63 sectors=12594960 sectors > > Offset Size End Name PType desc Subtype Flags > > 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 > 63 61362 61424 wd0s1 2 fat 6 > 61425 6142445 6204869 wdos2 3 freebsd 165 C> > ............................................ > > I'm not able to delete and create dos to start at 0 That first partition is the MSDOS "Master Boot Record (MBR)." You cannot use it in another parition if you are slicing the disk. Was there a questions somewhere in here? What do you want to do? It sounds like you need to put a filesystem on the first slice. If you had data on it you wanted to get at... Might be time to go to your backups. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message