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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hippo.ru.ac.za!kudu!ccdw From: ccdw@kudu.ru.ac.za (Dave Wilson) Subject: Re: fdisk Message-ID: <ccdw.760688290@kudu> Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za (Usenet News Admin) Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa References: <0hI0M_u00WB7EC5GkR@andrew.cmu.edu> <2iqbcn$k0k@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <ohIEar200VBLA_I34H@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 06:18:10 GMT Lines: 16 In <ohIEar200VBLA_I34H@andrew.cmu.edu> Timothy J Kniveton <tim+@CMU.EDU> writes: >i used the dos fdisk to set up a partition, then used the freebsd >install, which used the incorrect geometry and screwed up the disk so >that neither worked and i had to start over. You should use the dos fdisk to setup your partition, with a primary for dos and an extended for FreeBSD. Then use 'pfdisk' to change the type of the extended partition as described in the pfdisk docs. When you run the FreeBSD install be careful to specify the disk geometry matching that used by DOS (and displayed by the dos fdisk). I did this, and it works fine. -- Dave Wilson Computing Centre, Rhodes University Grahamstown, South Africa