From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 19 03:37:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA09363 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 03:37:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA09327 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 03:37:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA10617 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 12:37:34 +0200 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA12351; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 12:44:29 +0200 Message-Id: <199609191044.MAA12351@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 12:44:29 +0200 From: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies) To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk'ing by hand - advice needed In-Reply-To: <199609191002.MAA12224@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>; from Christoph Kukulies on Sep 19, 1996 12:02:50 +0200 References: <199609191002.MAA12224@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.43 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Christoph Kukulies writes: > I'm trying to fdisk a wd disk which stems from pre-2.0 (pre slicing) times > in a running system. The disk presently looks like this: > > ******* Working on device /dev/wd2 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=1023 heads=160 sectors/track=63 (10080 blks/cyl) [fdisk output deleted] Answering to my own message: /stand/sysinstall in it's present shape was a great help. Copied it from a newly installed machine (0801-SNAP) and ran it remotely through an xterm-color. Nice and colorful though the yellow characters on white background are a bit hard to decipher. Used the W option in partition menu and was there. > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de