Many thanks to all (Stuart, thanks for tips on posting) for your
you're welcome,
help. I guess I didn't rtfm very well. I didn't realize that c:
was where the "whole disk" partition should live.
Is there any way to salvage my current install, or should I bite the
bullet and start again.
It's not just the disklabel - the partition in the 'fdisk wd0' printout
doesn't match the drive size. This /may/ have had something to do with
the problems you had with disklabel too. (btw, of the fdisk output you
gave, only wd0 is meaningful, the others are disklabel partitions and
don't contain dos-style partitions).
If you haven't used a BSD before it can take a little while to
understand how this works but it's fairly straightforward. It's
probably *better* to have problems now, you'll learn much more from
breaking things and fixing them than just using the system. (Of course
there's a time for both :)
If I start again, and choose "whole disk",
will it obliterate the current partition scheme?
You might be left with hangovers from the old disklabel which would
show up when you type 'p' into the disklabel editor, it's probably
cleaner to drop to a shell and "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0 count=8k"
before starting to install (this overwrites the first 4mb of the disk
with zeroes which should be more than enough).
