Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:33:05 +0100 From: Stephan Beal <stephan.beal@einsurance.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: getting rid of FreeBSD partitions? Message-ID: <01011913330503.17675@cheyenne>
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All, Please excuse me if this is not the correct list to post this, but FreeBSD seems to have a rather limited set of lists, and this one sounded close: I installed FreeBSD 4.1 last week. I don't at all like it (reminds me too much of Solaris), and I'm trying desparately to replace it with Something Else. The problem is that I can't remove the BSD partitions. I have tried Win98's fdisk, Linux's fdisk, and even FreeBSD's fdisk (using the installation app), and I simply cannot make these damned BSD partitions go away. I suspect that using BSD's fdisk via the installer would work if it would allow me to commit the changes without having any BSD partitions installed. Running fdisk from the "holographic rescue shell" simply doesn't do it - they reappear on the next boot. Linux's fdisk segfaults when I try, and Win98's says it deletes them, only to have them show up again on the next reboot. I've got a 20GB IBM drive, which is my primary concern, plus an old 4GB secondary drive with the same problem (plus FreeBSD will only acknowledge 2GB of it, but that's beside the point). The drives are both useless to me until I can get the BSD partitions off of them. I've seen this problem before, but only with NT-fdisked drives, and even then, Linux's fdisk would fix the problem. How the hey do I get rid of BSD paritions? I've tried changing drive modes (LBA, Normal, etc.), different fdisk apps... everything I have available. (PS: May I please ask that you respond directly to me, as I have no intention of subscribing to this list, as I don't intend on continuing to use FreeBSD.) Thanks very much in advance, ----- Stephan Beal Generic Universal Computer Guy stephan.beal@einsurance.de http://www.einsurance.de Office: +49 (89) 53 07 38 32 (Don't bother. I never answer it.) Handy: +49 (179) 2119767 (I rarely answer that one, too.) "People don't live or die, people just grow." -- Bob Dylan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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