From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 3 8:45:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFD1937B401 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 08:45:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6898243EC2 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 08:45:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 23810 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2002 16:45:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail15.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 3 Dec 2002 16:45:52 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB3GjjuH037559; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 11:45:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20021203131003.GA88138@amethyst.hypostasis.com> Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 11:45:53 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: kit Subject: RE: DP2 partition type issue was: DP2 keyboard fails in FDISK Cc: current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 03-Dec-2002 kit wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:57:36PM +1300, kit wrote: >> Hello people >> >> Having decided to play with DP2 and downloaded the iso's I have an odd >> install issue. >> >> sysinstall loads fine and in running hte standard install I get to >> the disk partioning. However FDISK appears to remain unresponsive to >> the keyboard >> ALT-F2 works fine (and the power button gives me th option of restarting >> sysinstall or aborting - impressive) but the actual process of >> deleting the current w2k partion simply has no response. >> >> Machine is an IBM thinkpad A20m with a british keyboard and 12Gb disk >> and 256Mb memory, the disk is partioned as 4 Gb NTFS and 8 extended FAT >> >> the behaviour is the same also from the custome install FDISK menu. >> >> Interestingly the arrow keys do move between the existing partions >> some of the time but not once either A or D is selected. >> >> > OK I maust have missed something but some of the functions did work OK and I could > change type so long as I didn't try to delete the existing partions first. > By changing the type to 167 (FreeBSD) I was able to delete them and move on. > The geometry also needed to be changed from > 24944/15/63 to 1559/240/63 which is what both w2k and 4.5-RELEASE reported This was a bug that just got fixed yesterday. RC1 should be able to delete slices ok. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message