Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 21:57:57 +0100 From: Christoph Sold <christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de> To: muon@fusion.cwnet.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reclaiming hardrive Message-ID: <3A539255.CB95FD98@i-clue.de> References: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0101030609100.22182-100000@fusion.cwnet.com>
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muon@fusion.cwnet.com schrieb: > > To whom It May concern, > > i have recently purchased freebsd version 4.12 and i was using it to > put on my quantum fireball 20.5 gigabyte harddrive, Well, when I get to > the part of the installation process where you tell fdisk ti allocate how > much to freebsd. I push A for entire disk then it says something about > dangerously dedicated disk and I pressed yes and then when it goes into > the next screen where you create your slices or parttitions the screen > just goes blue and does nothing else. I was wondering how I can get back > my harddrive and put freebsd on there. Also I have got back four gigs of > it I managed to format but how do I reclaim the rest of the disk back so I > can put feebsd on it Some options come to mind: I just installed an additional 40 Gig IDE drive into an old and battered P-200 box. Worked like a charm. Read up in the handbook (http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook) how to install an additional disk. Try to fdisk the thing. /stand/sysinstall is usuallly good at it. If everything else fails, have Winblows fdisk to partition the drive. FreeBSD is able to detect this partitioning and get usful information from it, providing defaults before you delete the winblows partitions again. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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