From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 16 22:14:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zcamail04.zca.compaq.com (zcamail04.zca.compaq.com [161.114.32.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2298437B43C for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 22:14:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vasu.kulkarni@digital.com) Received: by zcamail04.zca.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id 5D51B10F4; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 22:16:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from taynzmail03.nz-tay.cpqcorp.net (taynzmail03.nz-tay.cpqcorp.net [16.47.4.103]) by zcamail04.zca.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFBBF12D7 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 22:16:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by taynzmail03.nz-tay.cpqcorp.net (Postfix, from userid 12345) id 79F7D24F; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 01:14:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from diexch01.xko.dec.com (diexch01.xko.dec.com [16.168.64.114]) by taynzmail03.nz-tay.cpqcorp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F3FC2E9 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 01:14:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from digital.com (16.168.64.133 [16.168.64.133]) by diexch01.xko.dec.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id 29CYNDR4; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 10:44:52 +0530 Message-ID: <3ADBD27A.A78C3A48@digital.com> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 10:49:54 +0530 From: Vasu Kulkarni Organization: dec X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: fdisk failing to create partition for bsd Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------0E4626F907F116178F4C5335" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------0E4626F907F116178F4C5335 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, This is my first mail to this list. I recently brought freebsd 4.1 cd and tried to install on my p-3 machine which already has windows-nt and linux7.0(lilo boot loader). but the problem is its failing to create a partition. This is my fdisk partition screen FDISK PARTION Disk Geometry 1292 cycls/240 heads/ 63 sector = 1953504 sectors (9538MB) OFFSET SIZE END NAME PTYPE DESC SUBTYPE 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 63 4173057 4173119 ad0s1 2 fat 6 4173120 4596480 8769599 ad0s2 1 ext2fs 131 8769600 10765440 19535039 ad0s3 4 extended 5 19535040 6048 19541087 - 6 unused 6 when i try to delete the partition with SIZE 6048, it says its unused. and when i try to create Partion(for SIZE 6048) it simple returns the same screen without any modification. please tell me how to solve the problem. even i tried by allocating the free space to fat type in windows-nt and then rebooting. it still does not work it shows the same screen. Regards Vasu K. --------------0E4626F907F116178F4C5335 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vasu.kulkarni.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Vasu Kulkarni Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vasu.kulkarni.vcf" begin:vcard n:Kulkarni;Vasu x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:DEC;Platforms and Middleware adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:vasu.kulkarni@digital.com title:SE x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Vasu Kulkarni end:vcard --------------0E4626F907F116178F4C5335-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message