Date: 01 May 2001 14:06:50 -0700 From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Incorporate a new partion on toshiba 4005 Message-ID: <m3ae4wpyqg.fsf@gnus.cvs.983032537>
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I imagine this is really basic stuff but as have many aspects of Freebsd this task seems very confusing. The laptop has FreeBSD and Redhat linux and a skeleton intstall of win98, on it. I want to wipe out the linux partition and add it to the FreeBSD space. There seems to be no handy tool that supplies me with usable information about the disk. At least not with out major studies . Fdisk output is nearly useless. It apparently doens't see the linux partition at all. disklabel and diskpart both seem to expect irreversable commands with out showing me what they'll do. Or where. That brings us to /stand/sysinstall and the fdisk editor. Evey piece of documentation on www.FreeBSD.org advises use of /stand/sysinstall for compatability mode partitions. (There is still a skeleton install of Win/98) Ok cool, but every one of them skates right over the firt big stumbling block. They tell you to `select a disk to work on'. No mention of why two are shown and I only have one. Selecting either one shows me the exact same picture but with a different name. So how can I tell witch one to select? Does it matter? What are the repercussions? The rest of the instrutions look easy enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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