On 03-Dec-2002 kit wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:57:36PM +1300, kit wrote: >> Hello people >> >> Having decided to play with DP2 and downloaded the iso's I have an odd >> install issue. >> >> sysinstall loads fine and in running hte standard install I get to >> the disk partioning. However FDISK appears to remain unresponsive to >> the keyboard >> ALT-F2 works fine (and the power button gives me th option of restarting >> sysinstall or aborting - impressive) but the actual process of >> deleting the current w2k partion simply has no response. >> >> Machine is an IBM thinkpad A20m with a british keyboard and 12Gb disk >> and 256Mb memory, the disk is partioned as 4 Gb NTFS and 8 extended FAT >> >> the behaviour is the same also from the custome install FDISK menu. >> >> Interestingly the arrow keys do move between the existing partions >> some of the time but not once either A or D is selected. >> >> > OK I maust have missed something but some of the functions did work OK and I could > change type so long as I didn't try to delete the existing partions first. > By changing the type to 167 (FreeBSD) I was able to delete them and move on. > The geometry also needed to be changed from > 24944/15/63 to 1559/240/63 which is what both w2k and 4.5-RELEASE reported
This was a bug that just got fixed yesterday. RC1 should be able to delete slices ok. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
