From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 27 12:24:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6AFB158AB for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 12:24:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01657; Thu, 27 May 1999 12:24:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:24:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Andrew McNaughton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reformatting part of a drive In-Reply-To: <199905260331.PAA19429@aniwa.sky> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 26 May 1999, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > > This is urgent. If anyone can answer this quickly it would make a big > difference to me. > > I have a 10.2GB drive which I've partitioned, and put some important data in > the last partition. I'm now ready to set up the system which I intended to > reside in the second partition, and I've realised there is a problem. > > I have made the first partition, more than 1024 cylinders long, so it seems I > will need to re-arrange things in order to boot from the second partition. > > Can I do this safely without risking the data stored on the last partition? > Is it just a case of makeing sure that the partition editor indicates the same > offset and size for the partition when I set up the new layout? Does your BIOS support LBA mode? If so turn it on. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message